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Campbell Airport

42.32460°N
-88.07410°W
ARR / DAY
10
▼ 12.0%
DEP / DAY
7
▼ 29.7%

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 10 arrivals and 7 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

From KBUU, 28 mi away (KC81 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

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
38% of ops
234 land · 132 TO
27
35% of ops
215 land · 270 TO
24
14% of ops
86 land · 42 TO
06
12% of ops
75 land · 15 TO
Runway 09 carries 38% of operations (234 landings, 132 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

09 234 landings
UA 18%
27 215 landings
UA 20%
24 86 landings
UA 15%
06 75 landings
UA 17%
Approaches to 09 show a 18% unstable-approach rate (42 UA events from 234 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
17.4
flights/day · 521 total
Busy hour (local)
9pm
also 4pm · 11pm
Day vs night
51%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 9pm–11pm local, averaging 17.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (17.1 vs 18.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

160 · 33%
121 · 25%
29 · 6%
28 · 6%
21 · 4%
20 · 4%
Activity is led by (33% of 480 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

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