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K8N2 ·

Skydive Chicago Airport

41.39980°N

-88.79390°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 27.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 2.7%

Skydive Chicago Airport (K8N2) is a small general aviation airport located in Ottawa, IL, 35 mi south west of Aurora. It features 1 runway measuring 4,522 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KDPA, 45 mi away (K8N2 does not publish METAR)

59m ago

Temp

32°F

Wind

5 kts

230°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDPA 282250Z AUTO 23005KT 10SM 27/16 A3010 RMK T02700160 MADISHF

Runways

1 installed

4,522 FT MAX

03/21

4,522 ft × 50

ASP● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

80% of ops

64 land · 20 TO

20% of ops

16 land · 12 TO

Runway 21 carries 80% of operations (64 landings, 20 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 03 at 20%.

Approach quality

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

21 64 landings

UA 8%

03 16 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 21 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 64 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

6.4

flights/day · 191 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 10pm · 4pm

Day vs night

57%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 6.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (7.5 vs 6.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (49% of 190 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.725	—
UNICOM	122.725	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Elevation:: 616 ft
Mag var:: 1° W

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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