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Funny Farm Airport

42.21048°N

-88.52006°W

ARR / DAY

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DEP / DAY

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Funny Farm Airport (5LL7) is a small general aviation airport located in Union, IL, 17 mi north west of Elgin. It features 1 runway measuring 2,016 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KDPA, 25 mi away (5LL7 does not publish METAR)

48m ago

Temp

92°F

Wind

10 kts

240°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDPA 022152Z 24010KT 10SM CLR 33/24 A2992 RMK AO2 SLP126 T03330239

Runways

1 installed

2,016 FT MAX

E/W

2,016 ft × 70

Turf○ unlit

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

58% of ops

46 land · 14 TO

42% of ops

33 land · 1 TO

Runway W carries 58% of operations (46 landings, 14 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is E at 42%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

W 46 landings

UA 15%

E 33 landings

UA 52%

Approaches to W show a 15% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 46 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

1.9

flights/day · 56 total

Busy hour (local)

12am

also 7pm · 8pm

Day vs night

50%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–8pm local, averaging 1.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (2.2 vs 1.8 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (25% of 55 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Elevation:: 875 ft

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

Anonymous

05/05/2009

re: North South Rwy Obstructed

Oops, didn't mean to imply that the airport was unusable... The E/W runway is 1800 feet long, and clear at both ends.