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De Kalb Taylor Municipal Airport

41.93370°N
-88.70570°W
ARR / DAY
6
25.0%
DEP / DAY
8
27.3%

De Kalb Taylor Municipal Airport (KDKB) is a small general aviation airport located in De Kalb, IL, 23 mi west of Elgin. It features 2 runways with the longest being 7,026 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

11h ago
Temp
88°F
Wind
6 kts
250°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KDKB 011635Z AUTO 25006KT 10SM CLR 31/26 A3000 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT N T03140258

Runway intelligence

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

20
39% of ops
313 land · 245 TO
02
31% of ops
252 land · 238 TO
27
21% of ops
171 land · 130 TO
09
8% of ops
66 land · 21 TO
Runway 20 carries 39% of operations (313 landings, 245 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 02 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

20 313 landings
UA 5%
02 252 landings
UA 3%
27 171 landings
UA 6%
09 66 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 20 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (17 UA events from 313 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
29.8
flights/day · 895 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 3pm · 7pm
Day vs night
61%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 29.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (30.8 vs 30.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (41% of 681 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700
APCH 133.500
APCH 349.000
UNICOM 122.700
AWOS 119.075
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Mag var:
2° W
Fuel:
100LL, A1+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 03:43 UTC