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Funny Farm Airport

42.21048°N

-88.52006°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 66.7%

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 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

26m ago

Temp

76°F

Wind

5 kts

110°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KDPA 241852Z 11005KT 10SM SCT055 24/11 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP196 T02440106

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

72% of ops

76 land · 11 TO

28% of ops

29 land · 0 TO

Runway W carries 72% of operations (76 landings, 11 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is E at 28%.

Approach quality

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

W 76 landings

UA 47%

E 29 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to W show a 47% unstable-approach rate (36 UA events from 76 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)

6pm

also 10pm · 4pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 1.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.6× weekday (2.0 vs 0.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

16 · 52%

2 · 6%

1 · 3%

Activity is led by (52% 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

05/05/2009

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.