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Vandalia Municipal Airport

38.99150°N
-89.16620°W
ARR / DAY
1
▼ 61.5%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 66.7%

Vandalia Municipal Airport (KVLA/VLA) is a small general aviation airport located in Vandalia, IL, 61 mi north east of St. Louis. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,751 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KBLV, 47 mi away (KVLA does not publish METAR)

46m ago
Temp
69°F
Wind
3 kts
160°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KBLV 250755Z 16003KT 10SM BKN050 21/20 A3003 RMK AO2A LTG DSNT W SLP169 T02080203 $

Runways

2 installed

3,751 FT MAX
09/27
3,001 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED
18/36
3,751 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

18
34% of ops
65 land · 21 TO
36
34% of ops
64 land · 37 TO
27
17% of ops
33 land · 9 TO
09
15% of ops
29 land · 0 TO
Runway 18 carries 34% of operations (65 landings, 21 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

18 65 landings
UA 11%
36 64 landings
UA 6%
27 33 landings
UA 3%
09 29 landings
UA 31%
Approaches to 18 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 65 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
3.1
flights/day · 93 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 12am · 1pm
Day vs night
61%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 3.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (1.9 vs 3.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

16 · 20%
11 · 14%
9 · 11%
8 · 10%
6 · 7%
6 · 7%
Activity is led by (20% of 81 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 122.800 —
DECATUR 124.300 —
OTHER 124.300 —
DECATUR 269.150 —
OTHER 269.150 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZKC
Mag var:
1° W
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

2
wolfgangx
06/02/2021
Great gas stop!
Loved stopping here for gas, classic small town airport
rstan
05/04/2019
Great Facility
Good fuel prices and free courtesy car
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