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KC77 ·

Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
23
8.7%
DEP / DAY
29
11.6%

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 23 arrivals and 29 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

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

36m ago
Temp
63°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KRFD 291254Z 00000KT 10SM BKN200 OVC250 17/15 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP206 T01720150 $

Runway intelligence

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

30
31% of ops
185 land · 185 TO
12
25% of ops
147 land · 61 TO
09
16% of ops
96 land · 7 TO
27
10% of ops
61 land · 43 TO
17
10% of ops
58 land · 19 TO
35
8% of ops
48 land · 38 TO
Runway 30 carries 31% of operations (185 landings, 185 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

30 185 landings
UA 6%
12 147 landings
UA 3%
09 96 landings
UA 4%
27 61 landings
UA 13%
17 58 landings
UA 2%
35 48 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 30 show a 6% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 185 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
33.7
flights/day · 1,012 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 3pm · 1pm
Day vs night
67%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–5pm local, averaging 33.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (39.4 vs 33.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (21% of 754 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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