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49IL ·

Walnut Creek Airport

41.59330°N

-88.69170°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

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Walnut Creek Airport (49IL) is a small general aviation airport located in Somonauk, IL, 22 mi south west of Aurora. It features 1 runway measuring 2,200 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KRFD, 47 mi away (49IL does not publish METAR)

1h ago

Temp

78°F

Wind

5 kts

60°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KRFD 142254Z 06005KT 8SM FEW030 OVC160 26/22 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP185 T02560217 $

Runways

1 installed

2,200 FT MAX

09/27

2,200 ft × 100

TURF● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

71% of ops

219 land · 13 TO

29% of ops

90 land · 6 TO

Runway 09 carries 71% of operations (219 landings, 13 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 29%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

09 219 landings

UA 14%

27 90 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 09 show a 14% unstable-approach rate (30 UA events from 219 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

6.5

flights/day · 196 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 8pm · 11pm

Day vs night

47%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–11pm local, averaging 6.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (3.4 vs 8.0 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (22% of 196 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Elevation:: 666 ft
Mag var:: 1° W

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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