Waukegan National Airport satellite view

📍 Chicago/Waukegan⬆ 727 ft2 runways

KUGN · UGN

Waukegan National Airport

42.42220°N

-87.86790°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 3.8%

DEP / DAY

▲ 8.8%

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 6,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 39 arrivals and 44 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

3h ago

Temp

82°F

Wind

12 kts

210°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KUGN 121751Z 21012KT 10SM CLR 28/18 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP079 T02780183 10278 20167 58020

Runways

2 installed

6,000 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

48% of ops

564 land · 344 TO

31% of ops

364 land · 421 TO

15% of ops

178 land · 96 TO

6% of ops

70 land · 65 TO

Runway 05 carries 48% of operations (564 landings, 344 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

05 564 landings

UA 3%

23 364 landings

UA 7%GA 0.3%

14 178 landings

UA 10%

32 70 landings

UA 13%

Approaches to 05 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 564 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

61.4

flights/day · 1,843 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 9pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–9pm local, averaging 61.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (74.5 vs 59.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (33% of 1,297 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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