Waukegan National Airport satellite view

📍 Chicago/Waukegan⬆ 727 ft2 runways

KUGN · UGN

Waukegan National Airport

42.42220°N

-87.86790°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 5.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 0.7%

Waukegan National Airport (KUGN/UGN) is a small general aviation airport located in Chicago/Waukegan, IL, 34 mi north east of Elgin. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 38 arrivals and 43 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1d ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

7 kts

60°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KUGN 292151Z 06007KT 10SM CLR 25/12 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP157 T02500117 $

Runways

2 installed

6,001 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

47% of ops

1,072 land · 1,178 TO

38% of ops

849 land · 536 TO

10% of ops

226 land · 95 TO

5% of ops

112 land · 124 TO

Runway 23 carries 47% of operations (1,072 landings, 1,178 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 38%.

Approach quality

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

23 1,072 landings

UA 6%

05 849 landings

UA 3%

14 226 landings

UA 9%

32 112 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 23 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (65 UA events from 1,072 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

65.8

flights/day · 1,973 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 7pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 65.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (58.1 vs 71.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (40% of 1,426 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	120.050	—
TWR	120.050	0600-2000
TWR	273.550	0600-2000
GND	121.650	0600-2000
ATIS	132.400	0600-2000
APCH	120.550	—
LCL/P	120.050	0600-2000
EMERG	121.500	0600-2000
GOPAC ST	126.500	—
OTHER	126.500	—
LCL/P	273.550	0600-2000
GOPAC ST	307.000	—
OTHER	307.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 3° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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