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De Kalb Taylor Municipal Airport

41.93370°N
-88.70570°W
ARR / DAY
6
14.3%
DEP / DAY
9
28.6%

De Kalb Taylor Municipal Airport (KDKB) is a small general aviation airport located in De Kalb, IL, 23 mi west of Elgin. It features 2 runways with the longest being 7,227 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

13m ago
Temp
72°F
Wind
6 kts
240°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KDKB 121635Z AUTO 24006KT 10SM SCT040 22/22 A2989 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT E AND S T02150215

Runway intelligence

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

02
38% of ops
938 land · 617 TO
20
26% of ops
642 land · 368 TO
27
25% of ops
601 land · 522 TO
09
11% of ops
272 land · 101 TO
Runway 02 carries 38% of operations (938 landings, 617 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 20 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

02 938 landings
UA 6%
20 642 landings
UA 4%
27 601 landings
UA 9%
09 272 landings
UA 3%
Approaches to 02 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (54 UA events from 938 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
47.2
flights/day · 1,417 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 6pm · 3pm
Day vs night
67%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 47.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (47.5 vs 49.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (40% of 875 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700
APCH 133.500
APCH 349.000
UNICOM 122.700
AWOS 119.075
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Mag var:
2° W
Fuel:
100LL, A1+

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
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 16:48 UTC