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Funny Farm Airport

42.21048°N

-88.52006°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Funny Farm Airport (5LL7) is a small general aviation airport located in Union, IL, 17 mi north west of Elgin. It features 1 runway measuring 2,016 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KDPA, 25 mi away (5LL7 does not publish METAR)

35m ago

Temp

73°F

Wind

6 kts

50°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDPA 300052Z 05006KT 10SM CLR 23/11 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP157 T02280111

Runways

1 installed

2,016 FT MAX

E/W

2,016 ft × 70

Turf○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

70% of ops

42 land · 6 TO

30% of ops

18 land · 0 TO

Runway W carries 70% of operations (42 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is E at 30%.

Approach quality

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

W 42 landings

UA 40%

E 18 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to W show a 40% unstable-approach rate (17 UA events from 42 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

1.1

flights/day · 32 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 10pm · 2pm

Day vs night

44%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–8pm local, averaging 1.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.8× weekday (1.6 vs 0.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

15 · 48%

2 · 6%

1 · 3%

Activity is led by (48% of 31 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Elevation:: 875 ft

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

Anonymous

5/5/2009

re: North South Rwy Obstructed

Oops, didn't mean to imply that the airport was unusable... The E/W runway is 1800 feet long, and clear at both ends.