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Funny Farm Airport

42.21048°N

-88.52006°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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)

26m ago

Temp

68°F

Wind

7 kts

230°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDPA 131252Z 23007KT 10SM CLR 20/16 A2981 RMK AO2 SLP091 T02000156

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

79% of ops

22 land · 3 TO

21% of ops

6 land · 4 TO

Runway W carries 79% of operations (22 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is E at 21%.

Approach quality

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

W 22 landings

UA 45%

E 6 landings

UA 17%

Approaches to W show a 45% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 22 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

1.3

flights/day · 40 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 2pm · 4pm

Day vs night

68%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (1.8 vs 1.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

14 · 35%

3 · 8%

2 · 5%

Activity is led by (35% of 40 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.