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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
6
▼ 53.8%
DEP / DAY
7
▼ 68.2%

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 6 arrivals and 7 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 KBUU, 37 mi away (KC77 does not publish METAR)

just now
Temp
86°F
Wind
4 kts
220°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KBUU 312355Z AUTO 22004KT 10SM CLR 30/27 A2991 RMK AO2 T03040265 10337 20295 PWINO

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
321 land · 321 TO
12
23% of ops
238 land · 112 TO
09
17% of ops
176 land · 10 TO
27
10% of ops
105 land · 74 TO
17
9% of ops
91 land · 28 TO
35
8% of ops
85 land · 67 TO
Runway 30 carries 32% of operations (321 landings, 321 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

30 321 landings
UA 5%
12 238 landings
UA 5%
09 176 landings
UA 5%
27 105 landings
UA 9%
17 91 landings
UA 4%
35 85 landings
UA 4%
Approaches to 30 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (15 UA events from 321 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
35.2
flights/day · 1,057 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 3pm · 4pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 35.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (45.4 vs 33.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

193 · 24%
127 · 16%
79 · 10%
48 · 6%
39 · 5%
35 · 4%
Activity is led by (24% of 792 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

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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