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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
28
▲ 183.8%
DEP / DAY
34
▲ 221.6%

Poplar Grove Airport (KC77) is a small general aviation airport located in Poplar Grove, IL. It features 3 runways with the longest being 3,773 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 28 arrivals and 34 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Go-arounds
0
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Rejected takeoffs
0
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Unstable approaches
1
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Return to field
0

Current weather

From KRFD, 16 mi away (KC77 does not publish METAR)

25m ago
Temp
76°F
Wind
4 kts
260°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KRFD 242254Z 26004KT 10SM FEW055 SCT210 24/12 A3008 RMK AO2 SLP183 T02440122

Runways

3 installed

3,773 FT MAX
09/27
2,709 ft × 200
GRS○ unlit
12/30
3,773 ft × 50
ASP● LITLOW
17/35
2,467 ft × 150
GRS○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

30
31% of ops
182 land · 174 TO
12
24% of ops
139 land · 60 TO
09
14% of ops
84 land · 8 TO
27
12% of ops
67 land · 36 TO
17
10% of ops
58 land · 19 TO
35
9% of ops
51 land · 35 TO
Runway 30 carries 31% of operations (182 landings, 174 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

30 182 landings
UA 6%
12 139 landings
UA 3%
09 84 landings
UA 4%
27 67 landings
UA 12%
17 58 landings
UA 2%
35 51 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 30 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 182 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
32.7
flights/day · 982 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 7pm · 3pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 32.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (42.4 vs 30.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

157 · 21%
129 · 17%
78 · 10%
45 · 6%
43 · 6%
34 · 5%
Activity is led by (21% of 743 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 121.000 —
APCH 327.000 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Mag var:
3° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
airbound
05/11/2011
C77 - Poplar Grove - Hard and Soft
Great airport for both Hard surface and soft surface TO/LDG
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