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Pekin Municipal Airport

40.48820°N
-89.67590°W
ARR / DAY
1
▼ 50.0%
DEP / DAY
2
▲ 100.0%

Pekin Municipal Airport (KC15) is a small general aviation airport located in Pekin, IL. It features 1 runway measuring 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KPIA, 12 mi away (KC15 does not publish METAR)

16m ago
Temp
72°F
Wind
8 kts
50°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KPIA 160554Z 05008KT 10SM OVC005 22/22 A3016 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SW-NW SLP208 60007 T02220217 10289 20211 403280200 55005

Runways

1 installed

5,000 FT MAX
09/27
5,000 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

27
66% of ops
88 land · 56 TO
09
34% of ops
46 land · 31 TO
Runway 27 carries 66% of operations (88 landings, 56 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 09 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

27 88 landings
UA 12%
09 46 landings
UA 7%
Approaches to 27 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 88 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
6.4
flights/day · 193 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 3pm · 4pm
Day vs night
60%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 6.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (7.0 vs 6.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

39 · 24%
19 · 12%
15 · 9%
9 · 6%
8 · 5%
8 · 5%
Activity is led by (24% of 160 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 125.800 —
APCH 269.200 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZKC
Elevation:
530 ft
Mag var:
2° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

3 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

3
AlanM70
7/19/2023
The Red Baron was here.
We stopped to pick up a passenger on our way home from Indiana and the Red Baron landed just after we did.
wolfgangx
5/20/2023
Fuel price is still ok
5.34 in May 2023
Cpfau182
5/5/2015
Nice FBO Fuel price OK
Visited my niece on the way to Lancing 2015
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