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KDKX ·

Knoxville Downtown Island Airport

35.96390°N

-83.87390°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 1.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 14.1%

Knoxville Downtown Island Airport (KDKX) is a small general aviation airport located in Knoxville, TN. It features 1 runway measuring 3,497 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 40 arrivals and 47 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 2 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago

Temp

97°F

Wind

3 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KDKX 021855Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM CLR 36/23 A3009 RMK A01

Runways

1 installed

3,497 FT MAX

08/26

3,497 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

62% of ops

801 land · 370 TO

38% of ops

493 land · 637 TO

Runway 08 carries 62% of operations (801 landings, 370 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 38%.

Approach quality

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

08 801 landings

UA 5%

26 493 landings

UA 2%

Approaches to 08 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (44 UA events from 801 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

53.8

flights/day · 1,613 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 1pm · 5pm

Day vs night

70%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 53.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (44.6 vs 59.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 1,423 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.075	—
APCH	123.900	—
APCH	353.600	—
UNICOM	123.075	—
AWOS	125.375	—
CD/P	121.700	—
OTHER	121.700	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 5° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

WarriorN21481

8/26/2017

Great destination, unusual setting

Located on an island just east of downtown Knoxville (as the name implies), DKX is always a pleasure to visit. It is an active field - there is almost always some air traffic in the pattern. Self service fuel is quite inexpensive. Overnight fee for one night waived with fuel purchase. It is always a treat to visit this airport. We've been there several times since 2008.

JeffSumeracki

7/1/2012

Fun!

A fun place to fly, GREAT FBO! Had a starting problem and the local mechanic dropped everything he was doing to help, got plane started so I could go home...

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