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Wauchula Municipal Airport

27.51490°N
-81.88050°W
ARR / DAY
8
▼ 37.0%
DEP / DAY
13
▼ 32.1%

Wauchula Municipal Airport (KCHN) is a small general aviation airport located in Wauchula, FL, 36 mi south of Lakeland. It features 1 runway measuring 4,005 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 13 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 KLAL, 34 mi away (KCHN does not publish METAR)

28m ago
Temp
91°F
Wind
8 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KLAL 041550Z 20008KT 10SM BKN020 33/27 A3002

Runways

1 installed

4,005 FT MAX
18/36
4,005 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

18
73% of ops
390 land · 103 TO
36
27% of ops
145 land · 212 TO
Runway 18 carries 73% of operations (390 landings, 103 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

18 390 landings
UA 1%
36 145 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 390 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
26.0
flights/day · 781 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 1pm · 3pm
Day vs night
83%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 26.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (21.2 vs 29.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

174 · 26%
156 · 24%
96 · 15%
29 · 4%
27 · 4%
26 · 4%
Activity is led by (26% of 659 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.900 —
AWOS 118.350 —
AVON PAR 134.550 —
OTHER 134.550 —
AVON PAR 257.700 —
OTHER 257.700 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMA
Mag var:
4° 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
05/10/2011
CHN - Wauchula - Night approach
Same night training flight - Moonless, cloudless. Arriving from the south, fire up the PCL, you can see this one from 10 nm out
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