Waukegan National Airport satellite view

📍 Chicago/Waukegan⬆ 727 ft2 runways

KUGN · UGN

Waukegan National Airport

42.42220°N

-87.86790°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 18.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 18.9%

Waukegan National Airport (KUGN/UGN) is a small general aviation airport located in Chicago/Waukegan, IL, 34 mi north east of Elgin. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 31 arrivals and 33 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KENW, 12 mi away (KUGN does not publish METAR)

39m ago

Temp

85°F

Wind

7 kts

200°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KENW 011653Z AUTO 20007KT 10SM VCTS FEW016 SCT024 SCT110 29/26 A2997 RMK AO2 RAB40E51 SLP143 P0000 T02940256

Runways

2 installed

6,001 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

40% of ops

411 land · 437 TO

36% of ops

370 land · 251 TO

14% of ops

144 land · 70 TO

11% of ops

112 land · 167 TO

Runway 23 carries 40% of operations (411 landings, 437 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

23 411 landings

UA 7%

05 370 landings

UA 3%

14 144 landings

UA 8%

32 112 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 23 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (30 UA events from 411 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

53.2

flights/day · 1,595 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 4pm · 9pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–9pm local, averaging 53.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (55.0 vs 55.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (37% of 1,148 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	120.050	—
TWR	120.050	0600-2000
TWR	273.550	0600-2000
GND	121.650	0600-2000
ATIS	132.400	0600-2000
APCH	120.550	—
LCL/P	120.050	0600-2000
EMERG	121.500	0600-2000
GOPAC ST	126.500	—
OTHER	126.500	—
LCL/P	273.550	0600-2000
GOPAC ST	307.000	—
OTHER	307.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 3° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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