The first of many aircraft to call Bult Field home. That's because another potential owner of this site was the State of Illinois, which hoped to make this a regional airport to lessen the heavy traffic at both O'Hare Field and Midway Field. And so do his neighbors, especially the Monee community which expressed complete pleasure when Jim Bult purchased the property. However, this airfield will stay a country airport simply because Bult wants to keep it country. Bult Field has already undergone a $40 million renovation and there's more coming.like a $5 million terminal facility, which will also include a new home for the Bult family. Today, Jim Bult is the owner of this 130-acre airfield. One of his student pilots was Jim Bult, 22 years old in 1984 and now age 45 with about 8,000 hours flight time logged in a variety of machines. Sanger Airport provided flight instruction, aircraft mechanics, and a few wooden T hangars to local aviators. Called Bult Field Airport and identified as C56, this country airport however dates back to 1942 when Paul Sanger, a Monee, Illinois aviation enthusiast started his 'grass strip' air field three nautical miles southeast of town.
Only about 30 miles due south of downtown Chicago and surrounded by fields of corn, soybeans, wildlife habitat and even a few tree farms sits one of the newer and more intriguing airfields in America. One of many rows of T-Hangars all of which features Schweiss Lift Strap Bifold Doors
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