Waukegan National Airport satellite view

📍 Chicago/Waukegan⬆ 727 ft2 runways

KUGN · UGN

Waukegan National Airport

42.42220°N

-87.86790°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 31.4%

DEP / DAY

▲ 39.0%

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 36 arrivals and 40 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

70°F

Wind

4 kts

310°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KUGN 270351Z AUTO 31004KT 10SM CLR 21/17 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP120 T02060167

Runways

2 installed

6,001 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

40% of ops

415 land · 304 TO

35% of ops

356 land · 372 TO

14% of ops

147 land · 84 TO

11% of ops

108 land · 159 TO

Runway 05 carries 40% of operations (415 landings, 304 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

05 415 landings

UA 3%

23 356 landings

UA 7%

14 147 landings

UA 9%

32 108 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 05 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (14 UA events from 415 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

54.0

flights/day · 1,619 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 7pm · 2pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 54.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (46.2 vs 59.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (38% of 1,155 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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