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Vandalia Municipal Airport

38.99150°N
-89.16620°W
ARR / DAY
2
▼ 35.3%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 30.0%

Vandalia Municipal Airport (KVLA/VLA) is a small general aviation airport located in Vandalia, IL, 61 mi north east of St. Louis. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,751 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KALN, 48 mi away (KVLA does not publish METAR)

20m ago
Temp
84°F
Wind
6 kts
140°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KALN 292150Z 14006KT 10SM CLR 29/17 A3006

Runways

2 installed

3,751 FT MAX
09/27
3,001 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED
18/36
3,751 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

36
46% of ops
31 land · 10 TO
09
28% of ops
19 land · 0 TO
18
13% of ops
9 land · 8 TO
27
12% of ops
8 land · 3 TO
Runway 36 carries 46% of operations (31 landings, 10 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 09 at 28%.

Approach quality

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

36 31 landings
UA 10%
09 19 landings
UA 5%
18 9 landings
UA 0%
27 8 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 36 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 31 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
3.0
flights/day · 91 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 4pm · 9pm
Day vs night
55%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 7pm–9pm local, averaging 3.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (2.5 vs 3.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

16 · 20%
10 · 12%
8 · 10%
6 · 7%
5 · 6%
4 · 5%
Activity is led by (20% of 81 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 122.800 —
DECATUR 124.300 —
OTHER 124.300 —
DECATUR 269.150 —
OTHER 269.150 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZKC
Mag var:
1° W
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

2
wolfgangx
06/02/2021
Great gas stop!
Loved stopping here for gas, classic small town airport
rstan
05/04/2019
Great Facility
Good fuel prices and free courtesy car
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