Vandalia Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Vandalia⬆ 537 ft2 runways

KVLA · VLA

Vandalia Municipal Airport

38.99150°N

-89.16620°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 30.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 140.0%

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 3,752 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KBLV, 47 mi away (KVLA does not publish METAR)

56m ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

11 kts

200°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBLV 191255Z 20011KT 10SM -RA BKN095 OVC140 22/22 A2994 RMK AO2A LTG DSNT SW SLP138 P0004 T02240219 $

Runways

2 installed

3,752 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

40% of ops

31 land · 13 TO

27% of ops

21 land · 2 TO

21% of ops

16 land · 14 TO

13% of ops

10 land · 5 TO

Runway 36 carries 40% of operations (31 landings, 13 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 09 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

36 31 landings

UA 13%

09 21 landings

UA 14%

18 16 landings

UA 6%

27 10 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 36 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (4 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

4.6

flights/day · 137 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 3pm · 9pm

Day vs night

55%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–9pm local, averaging 4.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (2.2 vs 5.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (18% of 113 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

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

wolfgangx

6/2/2021

Great gas stop!

Loved stopping here for gas, classic small town airport

rstan

5/4/2019

Great Facility

Good fuel prices and free courtesy car

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