Waukegan National Airport satellite view

📍 Chicago/Waukegan⬆ 727 ft2 runways

KUGN · UGN

Waukegan National Airport

42.42220°N

-87.86790°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 1.9%

DEP / DAY

▲ 3.1%

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 38 arrivals and 43 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

2d ago

Temp

59°F

Wind

5 kts

260°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KUGN 301051Z 26005KT 10SM CLR 15/13 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP172 T01500133 $

Runways

2 installed

6,000 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

46% of ops

1,487 land · 1,614 TO

38% of ops

1,212 land · 767 TO

10% of ops

328 land · 148 TO

5% of ops

176 land · 203 TO

Runway 23 carries 46% of operations (1,487 landings, 1,614 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 1,487 landings

UA 7%

05 1,212 landings

UA 3%GA 0.1%

14 328 landings

UA 9%

32 176 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 23 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (98 UA events from 1,487 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

70.7

flights/day · 2,121 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 7pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 70.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (58.1 vs 78.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (41% of 1,525 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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