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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
16
▼ 48.6%
DEP / DAY
17
▼ 57.4%

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 16 arrivals and 17 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 KDKB, 28 mi away (KC77 does not publish METAR)

22m ago
Temp
88°F
Wind
9 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KDKB 022335Z AUTO 20009KT 10SM CLR 31/25 A2992 RMK AO2 T03070247

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
296 land · 301 TO
12
24% of ops
224 land · 103 TO
09
17% of ops
160 land · 10 TO
27
10% of ops
99 land · 66 TO
17
10% of ops
92 land · 30 TO
35
9% of ops
82 land · 65 TO
Runway 30 carries 31% of operations (296 landings, 301 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

30 296 landings
UA 5%
12 224 landings
UA 4%
09 160 landings
UA 4%
27 99 landings
UA 10%
17 92 landings
UA 4%
35 82 landings
UA 4%
Approaches to 30 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (15 UA events from 296 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
35.4
flights/day · 1,061 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 3pm · 1pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–5pm local, averaging 35.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (43.9 vs 33.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

176 · 22%
138 · 17%
90 · 11%
49 · 6%
42 · 5%
32 · 4%
Activity is led by (22% of 802 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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