Schaumburg Regional
06C · Chicago/Schaumburg, Illinois · Du Page County · map
Schaumburg Regional is a public-use airport owned by the Village of Schaumburg, 22 miles northwest of Chicago/Schaumburg, Illinois, 801 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 3,800 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 66 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 45,000 takeoffs and landings a year. About 2 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 06C
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Village of Schaumburg
- Elevation
- 801 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- October to April, every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm; May to September, every day, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 3,800 × 100 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 11: PAPI, two lights on the right, brush 22 ft high 251 ft from the end
- Runway 29: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| 06C AWOS-3 | 128.275 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone (847) 895-2887.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 45,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Chicago/Schaumburg from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Chicago/Schaumburg, IL as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 23 since 1982, 4 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- And cook county.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 11/29 preset low intst; to incr intst and activate taxiway lights and runway end identifier lightss runway 11 and runway 29 - the common traffic frequency.
- Airport administrator.
- 100LL self srvc fuel available after hours.
- Has 100 feet stwy on each end.
- Water fowl on and in the vicinity of runway 11/29.
- Runway 29 prefered runway in calm and direct crosswinds. Departure aircraft fly runway heading to 1400 feet above sea level before starting crosswind turn.
- Banner towing prohibited with in 2 NM radius of airport.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.