Chicago Executive
PWK · KPWK · Chicago/Prospect Heights/Wheeling, Illinois · Cook County · map
Chicago Executive is a public-use airport, 18 miles northwest of Chicago/Prospect Heights/Wheeling, Illinois, 645 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 16/34, is 5,001 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive) and about 236 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 97,636 takeoffs and landings a year. About 1,132 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KPWK · observed 6:52 pm CDT (23:52 UTC), 15 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south-southwest (200°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a few clouds at 7,000 feet
- Temperature 69°F (21°C), dew point 43°F (6°C)
- Altimeter 29.91 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 KPWK 062352Z 20007KT 10SM FEW070 21/06 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP127 T02060061 10233 20206 56012
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 PWK · ICAO KPWK
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 645 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 10:00 pm mon-fri and 7:00 am to 10:00 pm sat-sun
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1944
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 5,001 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 12/30 | 4,415 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, runway lead-in lights, pole 24 ft high 629 ft from the end
- Runway 34: PAPI, four lights on the left, road 13 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 12: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 295 ft, 3,785 ft available for landing, tree 42 ft high 491 ft from the end
- Runway 30: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 432 ft, 3,725 ft available for landing, road 15 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.9 | Executive |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 124.2 | Executive |
| Clearance delivery When tower closed | 124.7 | Executive |
| Ground | 121.7 | Executive |
| Approach and departure | 120.55 | Executive |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) | 128.575 | Executive |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 847-465-0291.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 97,636, 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/Prospect Heights/Wheeling from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Chicago/Prospect Heights/Wheeling, IL as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 74 since 1982, 6 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
- Airport estd prior to 1959. No objection for asp on runways 12L/30R and 16/34 only.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 16 and 34; rlls runway 16; high-intensity runway lights 16/34; medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- Customs user fee. MON-FRI 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
- Engineered materials arresting system (emas) runway 16 departure end: 242.97 feet in length by 170.10 feet in width, setback 35 feet from runway end.
- Engineered materials arresting system (emas) runway 34 departure end: 230.82 feet in length by 170.10 feet in width, setback 304.18 feet from runway end.
- Non-standard spacing.
- 15 feet road and 6 feet fence.
- +6 feet fence 0 feet from threshold; +20 feet trees 0 feet and 50 feet from threshold; 15 feet road.
- Ctn: when crcg east for R traffic runway 34 vfy alnmt; do not misalign with runway 30.
- PAPI unusable beyond 8 degrees left and 9 degrees right of centerline.
- PAPI unusable beyond 8 degrees left and right of centerline.
- Approach ratio 20:1 at dthr.
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.