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KLOT · LOT

Lewis University Airport

41.60730°N

-88.09620°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 30.7%

DEP / DAY

▲ 36.9%

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 75 arrivals and 74 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 3 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

19h ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KLOT 280910Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW080 18/18 A3011 RMK AO2

Runways

2 installed

6,500 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

54% of ops

1,695 land · 1,473 TO

25% of ops

786 land · 742 TO

11% of ops

342 land · 253 TO

10% of ops

328 land · 252 TO

Runway 27 carries 54% of operations (1,695 landings, 1,473 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 20 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

27 1,695 landings

UA 17%

20 786 landings

UA 5%

09 342 landings

UA 5%

02 328 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 27 show a 17% unstable-approach rate (290 UA events from 1,695 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

85.2

flights/day · 2,557 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 8pm · 6pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 85.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (65.0 vs 97.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (64% of 2,020 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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