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KLOT · LOT

Lewis University Airport

41.60730°N

-88.09620°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 34.8%

DEP / DAY

▲ 28.3%

Lewis University Airport (KLOT/LOT) is a small general aviation airport located in Chicago/Romeoville, IL. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 64 arrivals and 61 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

7h ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

4 kts

300°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KLOT 270930Z AUTO 30004KT 10SM CLR 18/18 A2996 RMK AO2

Runways

2 installed

6,500 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

49% of ops

1,567 land · 1,351 TO

23% of ops

737 land · 681 TO

16% of ops

523 land · 467 TO

11% of ops

343 land · 242 TO

Runway 27 carries 49% of operations (1,567 landings, 1,351 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 20 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

27 1,567 landings

UA 18%

20 737 landings

UA 5%

02 523 landings

UA 2%

09 343 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 27 show a 18% unstable-approach rate (282 UA events from 1,567 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

85.0

flights/day · 2,549 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 4pm · 2pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–8pm local, averaging 85.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (65.0 vs 96.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (64% of 2,018 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	134.800	—
TWR	134.800	0600-2000
GND	120.425	0600-2000
ATIS	126.675	0600-2000
APCH	119.350	—
APCH	354.075	—
AWOS	126.675	—
LCL/P	134.800	0600-2000

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Elevation:: 679 ft
Mag var:: 2° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 3 PM · 1 movement every 327 s

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

airbound

05/11/2011

LOT - Lewis - Mixed traffic

Busy field during primary training with mixed traffic. Pattern always seemed full and extending downwind was normal.

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