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K8N2 ·

Skydive Chicago Airport

41.39980°N

-88.79390°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

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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.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KC09, 20 mi away (K8N2 does not publish METAR)

just now

Temp

75°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KC09 131723Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC018 24/23 A2999 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT W

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

74% of ops

67 land · 26 TO

26% of ops

23 land · 20 TO

Runway 21 carries 74% of operations (67 landings, 26 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 03 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

21 67 landings

UA 6%

03 23 landings

UA 17%

Approaches to 21 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 67 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

5.6

flights/day · 168 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 7pm · 5pm

Day vs night

64%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 5.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.0× weekday (9.0 vs 4.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (46% of 168 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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