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1C8 ·

Cottonwood Airport

42.29170°N

-89.13620°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Cottonwood Airport (1C8) is a small general aviation airport located in Rockford, IL. It features 1 runway measuring 2,540 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KRFD, 7 mi away (1C8 does not publish METAR)

54m ago

Temp

79°F

Wind

3 kts

110°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KRFD 142054Z 11003KT 7SM FEW025 OVC200 26/21 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP178 T02610211 56014 $

Runways

1 installed

2,540 FT MAX

18/36

2,540 ft × 260

TURF-G● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

51% of ops

65 land · 30 TO

49% of ops

63 land · 4 TO

Runway 36 carries 51% of operations (65 landings, 30 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 49%.

Approach quality

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

36 65 landings

UA 0%

18 63 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 36 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 65 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

2.8

flights/day · 84 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 4pm · 3pm

Day vs night

58%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 2.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.7× weekday (4.1 vs 2.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 71 flights). Top three types: , , .

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