Fairfield Municipal Airport frequencies

Fairfield Municipal Airport (FWC · KFWC) in Fairfield, IL has no control tower, so nobody is sequencing traffic here — you announce your own position on 123.05. Every frequency below is in the order you tune it. · Open on the map

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Before taxi

ASOS/AWOS 119.425: 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 123.05: 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 123.05: 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.

Also

Flight service 127.7 (LOW): Flight Service handles briefings, flight plans and en route advisories, reached here through a remote outlet. Open and close VFR flight plans, and get updated weather in the air. 1-800-WX-BRIEF reaches the same specialists from the ground.

What to say on 123.05

Nobody is sequencing traffic at KFWC, 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 — 123.05 is not unique to Fairfield Municipal Airport.

Inbound, 10 miles out Fairfield traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, one zero miles south, inbound landing runway 09, Fairfield.
Entering the pattern Fairfield traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, entering left downwind runway 09, Fairfield.
Before taking the runway Fairfield traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, departing runway 09, Fairfield.

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

By procedure & sector (1 more)

351.825	MOUNT VERNON RCAG (LOW)

Every KFWC frequency, as one table

ASOS/AWOS	119.425
CTAF	123.05
UNICOM	123.05
Flight service	127.7 (LOW)

Frequently asked

What is the CTAF at KFWC?

Fairfield Municipal Airport is non towered. The common traffic advisory frequency is 123.05 — announce your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern.

What is the ASOS/AWOS frequency at KFWC?

ASOS/AWOS at Fairfield Municipal Airport is 119.425. It is an automated broadcast, so there is no letter to report — just take the altimeter setting and wind.

More about KFWC

Frequencies from FAA NASR. For planning and education only; always verify against official sources.