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Campbell Airport

42.32460°N
-88.07410°W
ARR / DAY
7
▲ 40.0%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 0.0%

Campbell Airport (KC81) is a small general aviation airport located in Grayslake, IL, 22 mi north east of Elgin. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,573 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 6 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 KPWK, 17 mi away (KC81 does not publish METAR)

51m ago
Temp
62°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KPWK 070852Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 17/16 A3017 RMK AO2 SLP213 6//// T01670161 51010 PNO $

Runways

2 installed

3,573 FT MAX
06/24
3,573 ft × 40
COP○ unlit
09/27
3,270 ft × 40
ASP● LITNSTD

Runway intelligence

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

09
40% of ops
240 land · 142 TO
27
34% of ops
204 land · 259 TO
24
14% of ops
82 land · 42 TO
06
12% of ops
71 land · 14 TO
Runway 09 carries 40% of operations (240 landings, 142 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 34%.

Approach quality

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

09 240 landings
UA 19%
27 204 landings
UA 19%
24 82 landings
UA 12%
06 71 landings
UA 13%
Approaches to 09 show a 19% unstable-approach rate (46 UA events from 240 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
16.5
flights/day · 495 total
Busy hour (local)
9pm
also 10pm · 12am
Day vs night
50%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–9pm local, averaging 16.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (16.5 vs 17.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

156 · 35%
106 · 23%
30 · 7%
22 · 5%
22 · 5%
19 · 4%
Activity is led by (35% of 452 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700 —
APCH 120.550 —
APCH 306.925 —
UNICOM 122.700 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Elevation:
788 ft
Mag var:
2° W
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
Oblivion
07/18/2007
My aviation birthplace.
I did my Private Pilot training here.
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