Dixon Muni-Charles R Walgreen Field
C73 · Dixon, Illinois · Lee County · map
Dixon Muni-Charles R Walgreen Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Dixon, 1 mile east of Dixon, Illinois, 785 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 3,897 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 23 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 40,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C73
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Dixon
- Elevation
- 785 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; Saturday, 8:00 am to 12:00 pm; Sunday, on call
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 3,897 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 12/30 | 2,803 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 26: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.0 | |
| C73 and aWOS-AV | 118.575 |
Automated weather (AWOS-AV), by phone 815-288-2039.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 40,000, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Dixon from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Dixon, Illinois: 5 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 0 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
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 preset on low intst sunset to sunrise; to incr intst and activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26, runway end identifier lights runway 08, PAPI runway 26 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self fueling available 24 hours.
- Helipad parking designation located at northeast corner of ramp/apron area.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.