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Vandalia Municipal Airport

38.99150°N
-89.16620°W
ARR / DAY
1
▼ 33.3%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 42.9%

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)

32m ago
Temp
65°F
Wind
3 kts
30°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KBLV 230855Z 03003KT 10SM FEW055 18/17 A3012 RMK AO2A SLP200 T01840171 52010 $

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
32% of ops
81 land · 21 TO
36
29% of ops
74 land · 37 TO
09
20% of ops
51 land · 5 TO
27
19% of ops
49 land · 11 TO
Runway 18 carries 32% of operations (81 landings, 21 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

18 81 landings
UA 9%
36 74 landings
UA 5%
09 51 landings
UA 18%
27 49 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 18 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 81 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
3.5
flights/day · 105 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 4pm · 12am
Day vs night
63%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–1pm local, averaging 3.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (1.9 vs 4.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

22 · 24%
12 · 13%
9 · 10%
8 · 9%
7 · 8%
7 · 8%
Activity is led by (24% of 91 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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