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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
13
▼ 38.1%
DEP / DAY
22
▲ 29.4%

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 13 arrivals and 22 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

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

16m ago
Temp
74°F
Wind
4 kts
310°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KRFD 050854Z 31004KT 10SM FEW120 SCT150 23/23 A2992 RMK AO2 SLP126 T02330228 56004

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
32% of ops
328 land · 320 TO
12
23% of ops
242 land · 116 TO
09
17% of ops
174 land · 11 TO
27
11% of ops
110 land · 74 TO
17
9% of ops
94 land · 31 TO
35
8% of ops
88 land · 68 TO
Runway 30 carries 32% of operations (328 landings, 320 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

30 328 landings
UA 5%
12 242 landings
UA 5%
09 174 landings
UA 5%
27 110 landings
UA 11%
17 94 landings
UA 4%
35 88 landings
UA 3%
Approaches to 30 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (17 UA events from 328 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
36.6
flights/day · 1,098 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 4pm · 3pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 36.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (43.9 vs 35.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

197 · 24%
135 · 16%
87 · 11%
49 · 6%
45 · 5%
34 · 4%
Activity is led by (24% of 823 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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