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📍 Rockford⬆ 741 ft1 runways

1C8 ·

Cottonwood Airport

42.29170°N

-89.13620°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

47m ago

Temp

78°F

Wind

3 kts

200°

Visib

8047 m

Ceil

—

KRFD 152154Z 20003KT 5SM -RA BR FEW014 BKN021 OVC039 26/24 A3004 RMK AO2 RAB03E19B54DZB52E54 SLP167 P0000 T02560239 $

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

52% of ops

65 land · 26 TO

48% of ops

61 land · 4 TO

Runway 36 carries 52% of operations (65 landings, 26 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 48%.

Approach quality

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

36 65 landings

UA 0%

18 61 landings

UA 5%

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 · 85 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 1pm · 8pm

Day vs night

56%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–8pm local, averaging 2.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.7× weekday (4.1 vs 2.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 69 flights). Top three types: , , .

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