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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
24
▲ 26.9%
DEP / DAY
31
▲ 34.6%

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 24 arrivals and 31 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)

36m ago
Temp
78°F
Wind
6 kts
310°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KRFD 281754Z 31006KT 10SM SCT050 26/14 A3016 RMK AO2 SLP209 T02560144 10278 20144 58004

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
184 land · 183 TO
12
24% of ops
144 land · 63 TO
09
16% of ops
94 land · 8 TO
27
11% of ops
66 land · 43 TO
17
9% of ops
56 land · 18 TO
35
8% of ops
47 land · 40 TO
Runway 30 carries 31% of operations (184 landings, 183 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

30 184 landings
UA 7%
12 144 landings
UA 3%
09 94 landings
UA 4%
27 66 landings
UA 12%
17 56 landings
UA 2%
35 47 landings
UA 2%
Approaches to 30 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 184 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
33.8
flights/day · 1,013 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 3pm · 7pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 33.8 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

161 · 21%
131 · 17%
84 · 11%
46 · 6%
44 · 6%
29 · 4%
Activity is led by (21% of 759 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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