Sparta Community Hunter Field satellite view

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KSAR · SAR

Sparta Community Hunter Field

38.14890°N

-89.69870°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 46.9%

Sparta Community Hunter Field (KSAR/SAR) is a small general aviation airport located in Sparta, IL, 43 mi south east of St. Louis. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KBLV, 28 mi away (KSAR does not publish METAR)

42m ago

Temp

86°F

Wind

6 kts

190°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KBLV 182055Z AUTO 19006KT 10SM CLR 30/21 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP148 T02980212 57020 $

Runways

2 installed

4,001 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

48% of ops

154 land · 84 TO

31% of ops

98 land · 148 TO

15% of ops

48 land · 8 TO

6% of ops

20 land · 6 TO

Runway 18 carries 48% of operations (154 landings, 84 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

18 154 landings

UA 7%

36 98 landings

UA 8%

09 48 landings

UA 23%

27 20 landings

UA 10%

Approaches to 18 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 154 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

9.9

flights/day · 297 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 8pm · 2pm

Day vs night

66%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 9.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (7.1 vs 11.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (41% of 239 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.075	—
APCH	125.200	—
APCH	281.500	—
UNICOM	123.075	—
AWOS	118.375	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Mag var:: 1° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

N9351X

12/24/2022

Great airport! Great people!

I’ve been based here for years. Scott, the airport manager, and his crew do a fantastic job. There are 2 full time a&p’s on site. Flight training , fuel, or service on your plane - they can take care of it.

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