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Illinois Valley Regional Airport-Walter A Duncan Field

41.35190°N
-89.15310°W
ARR / DAY
3
▼ 13.0%
DEP / DAY
3
▲ 61.5%

Illinois Valley Regional Airport-Walter A Duncan Field (KVYS/VYS) is a small general aviation airport located in Peru, IL, 49 mi north east of North Peoria. It features 1 runway measuring 6,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

8h ago
Temp
—
Wind
9 kts
230°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KVYS 130650Z AUTO 23009KT 10SM CLR A2978 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

6,000 FT MAX
18/36
6,000 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

18
58% of ops
64 land · 22 TO
36
42% of ops
46 land · 20 TO
Runway 18 carries 58% of operations (64 landings, 22 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 42%.

Approach quality

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

18 64 landings
UA 11%
36 46 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 64 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
5.8
flights/day · 175 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 3pm · 2pm
Day vs night
73%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 5.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (6.9 vs 5.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 129 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000 —
UNICOM 123.000 —
AWOS 120.025 —
MAZON RC 123.750 —
OTHER 123.750 —
MAZON RC 259.100 —
OTHER 259.100 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Mag var:
3° W
Fuel:
100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 15:29 UTC