Knoxville Downtown Island Airport
DKX · KDKX · Knoxville, Tennessee · Knox County · map
Knoxville Downtown Island Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee, 833 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 3,499 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
Weather right now KDKX · observed 4:50 pm EDT (20:50 UTC), 32 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind variable at 3 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 81°F (27°C), dew point 61°F (16°C)
- Altimeter 30.02 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KDKX 062050Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM CLR 27/16 A3002 RMK A01
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA DKX · ICAO KDKX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 833 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1938
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 3,499 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 54 ft high 862 ft from the end
- Runway 26: LOCALIZER, PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| Clearance delivery | 121.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 123.9 | |
| Dkx and aWOS-3 | 125.375 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 865-579-6151.
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 Knoxville from the FAA register
383 aircraft are registered to owners in Knoxville, Tennessee: 261 piston singles, 40 business jets, 20 turboprops, 19 piston twins, 13 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Tennessee.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 30 since 1982, 3 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
- Geese on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway end identifier lights runway 08 and 26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 and taxiway lights operates dusk to dawn and preset low intst; incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runway 08 and 26; PAPI runway 08 and 26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - 123.075.
- 100LL self serv H24 with credit card.
- Calm wind runway.
- Noise sensitive area 1 NM southwest; departure avoid flight ovr nbrhd.
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.