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Pekin Municipal Airport

40.48820°N
-89.67590°W
ARR / DAY
3
▲ 75.0%
DEP / DAY
3
▲ 118.2%

Pekin Municipal Airport (KC15) is a small general aviation airport located in Pekin, IL. It features 1 runway measuring 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Go-arounds
0
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Rejected takeoffs
0
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Unstable approaches
1
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Return to field
0

Current weather

From KPIA, 12 mi away (KC15 does not publish METAR)

58m ago
Temp
61°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KPIA 241254Z 00000KT 09SM CLR 16/14 A3008

Runways

1 installed

5,000 FT MAX
09/27
5,000 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

27
67% of ops
66 land · 25 TO
09
33% of ops
32 land · 29 TO
Runway 27 carries 67% of operations (66 landings, 25 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 09 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

27 66 landings
UA 9%
09 32 landings
UA 3%
Approaches to 27 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 66 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
6.5
flights/day · 196 total
Busy hour (local)
9pm
also 7pm · 5pm
Day vs night
58%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–9pm local, averaging 6.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (5.1 vs 7.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

77 · 43%
32 · 18%
16 · 9%
6 · 3%
5 · 3%
5 · 3%
Activity is led by (43% of 179 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 125.800 —
APCH 269.200 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZKC
Elevation:
530 ft
Mag var:
2° W
Fuel:
100LL

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

Pilot & community notes

3 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

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AlanM70
07/19/2023
The Red Baron was here.
We stopped to pick up a passenger on our way home from Indiana and the Red Baron landed just after we did.
wolfgangx
05/20/2023
Fuel price is still ok
5.34 in May 2023
Cpfau182
05/05/2015
Nice FBO Fuel price OK
Visited my niece on the way to Lancing 2015
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