Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport frequencies

Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport (DKK · KDKK) in Dunkirk, NY has no control tower, so nobody is sequencing traffic here — you announce your own position on 123.075. Every frequency below is in the order you tune it. · Open on the map

All of Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport — runways, frequencies, charts and live weather

Before taxi

ASOS/AWOS 119.275
An automated weather station reading the field conditions aloud — wind, visibility, ceiling, temperature and altimeter. It replaces ATIS at a field with no controller to record one. Get the altimeter setting before you descend below the transition altitude.

Taxi & takeoff

CTAF 123.075
The common frequency pilots use to announce themselves to each other at a field with no operating control tower. Nobody is controlling traffic — you are self announcing. Report your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern, and listen well before you transmit.
UNICOM 123.075
A ground station run by the FBO rather than the FAA, for fuel, parking and airport services. Use it for services. Where the field has no separate CTAF, the same frequency doubles as the advisory frequency.

Departure & arrival Buffalo

App/Dep 126.5
One radar controller working both arrivals and departures — normal at a smaller TRACON. The same frequency takes your climb out and your inbound call.

What to say on 123.075

Nobody is sequencing traffic at KDKK, so every call is you telling other aircraft where you are. Open and close with the field name so a pilot tuned to a shared frequency knows which airport you mean — 123.075 is not unique to Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport.

  • Inbound, 10 miles out Chautauqua -Dunkirk traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, one zero miles south, inbound landing runway 06, Chautauqua -Dunkirk.
  • Entering the pattern Chautauqua -Dunkirk traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, entering left downwind runway 06, Chautauqua -Dunkirk.
  • Before taking the runway Chautauqua -Dunkirk traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, departing runway 06, Chautauqua -Dunkirk.

Pattern direction is not always left here — check the KDKK traffic pattern before you announce a leg. The Chart Supplement is authoritative if KDKK publishes a call name that differs from the airport's. Full guidance →

By procedure & sector (2 more)
116.2/109XDKK DME
317.6APCH/P DEP/P
Every KDKK frequency, as one table
ASOS/AWOS119.275
CTAF123.075
UNICOM123.075
App/Dep126.5

Frequently asked

What is the CTAF at KDKK?

Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport is non towered. The common traffic advisory frequency is 123.075 — announce your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern.

What is the ASOS/AWOS frequency at KDKK?

ASOS/AWOS at Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport is 119.275. It is an automated broadcast, so there is no letter to report — just take the altimeter setting and wind.

What is the approach frequency for KDKK?

App/Dep for Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport is 126.5, working as "Buffalo". Call inbound for flight following or to begin an instrument approach.