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KDKX ·

Knoxville Downtown Island Airport

35.96390°N

-83.87390°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Knoxville Downtown Island Airport (KDKX) is a small general aviation airport located in Knoxville, TN. It features 1 runway measuring 3,499 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

28m ago

Temp

88°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KDKX 272230Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 31/26 A2987 RMK A01

Runways

1 installed

3,499 FT MAX

08/26

3,499 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

57% of ops

927 land · 675 TO

43% of ops

710 land · 624 TO

Runway 08 carries 57% of operations (927 landings, 675 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 43%.

Approach quality

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

08 927 landings

UA 8%

26 710 landings

UA 1%

Approaches to 08 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (70 UA events from 927 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

31.2

flights/day · 935 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 3pm · 2pm

Day vs night

69%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 31.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (15.5 vs 38.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 835 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

08/26/2017

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

07/01/2012

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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