Opened in April 1944, DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

(FAA LID

LID

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: DKB, ICAO: KDKB, IATA: DTMA) is a general aviation airport and is situated on 920 acres (3.7 km²) at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 914 ft (279 m) and located two miles (3.2 km) east of DeKalb

DeKalb

-Locations:* Municipalities in the United States:** DeKalb, Illinois, the largest city in the United States named DeKalb***DeKalb High School in that city** De Kalb, Mississippi ** De Kalb, Missouri...

, Illinois

Illinois

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, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. DTMA is located approx. 60 mi (96.6 km) west of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

. The airport is open 24-hours a day and is owned by the city of DeKalb.

Airport Operational Statistics

Currently, 70 aircraft

Aircraft

An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...

 (61 single engine, four twin engine, three turbo prop, one jet and one helicopter

Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...

) are based at the airport. In 2007, there was an average of 74 daily aircraft operations (73% transient general aviation, 23% local general aviation and 4% air taxi

Air taxi

An air taxi is an air charter passenger or cargo aircraft which operates on an on-demand basis.-Regulation:In the United States, air taxi and air charter operations are governed by Part 135 of the Federal Aviation Regulations , unlike the larger scheduled air carriers which are governed by more...

 operations).

Runways

KDMA has four runways: runway 2/20 measures 7,025 ft x 100 ft (2,141 m x 30 m) and runway 9/27 measures 4,200 ft x 75 ft (1,280 m x 23 m). Furthermore, all runways are surfaced with asphalt

Asphalt

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 and grooved. Runway 02 is equipped with an instrument landing system

Instrument Landing System

An instrument landing system is a ground-based instrument approach system that provides precision guidance to an aircraft approaching and landing on a runway, using a combination of radio signals and, in many cases, high-intensity lighting arrays to enable a safe landing during instrument...

 (ILS), which allows for instrument approaches. Moreover, GPS approaches can be made to all runways. Runway 2/20 is fully suitable for take-offs of corporate aircraft, such as the Boeing Business Jet

Boeing Business Jet

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, for non-stop flights to Europe

Europe

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 and China

China

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.

Fixed Base Operator

DeKalb Flight Center, which is the airport's fixed base operator

Fixed base operator

A Fixed-base operator or commonly abbreviated FBO is a term developed in the United States after the passage of the Air Commerce Act of 1926...

 (FBO), provides a wide-range of airport services, including the following: Aviation fuel Avgas

Avgas

Avgas is an aviation fuel used to power piston-engine aircraft. Avgas is distinguished from mogas , which is the everyday gasoline used in cars and some non-commercial light aircraft...

 100LL, Jet A, aircraft parking (ramp

Ramp

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 or tiedown), aircraft de-icing, hangar

Hangar

A hangar is a closed structure to hold aircraft or spacecraft in protective storage. Most hangars are built of metal, but other materials such as wood and concrete are also sometimes used...

s, hangar leasing / sales, GPU / power cart, flight training

Flight training

Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills....

, charter services, aircraft rental and aircraft parts. Furthermore, wireless LAN

Wireless LAN

A wireless local area network links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method , and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network...

(WLAN) access is available to all DeKalb Flight Center customers.