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K8N2 ·

Skydive Chicago Airport

41.39980°N

-88.79390°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Skydive Chicago Airport (K8N2) is a small general aviation airport located in Ottawa, IL, 35 mi south west of Aurora. It features 1 runway measuring 4,522 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

4,522 FT MAX

03/21

4,522 ft × 50

ASP● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

78% of ops

183 land · 51 TO

22% of ops

51 land · 57 TO

Runway 21 carries 78% of operations (183 landings, 51 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 03 at 22%.

Approach quality

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

21 183 landings

UA 5%

03 51 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 21 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (10 UA events from 183 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

8.7

flights/day · 262 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 8pm · 10pm

Day vs night

57%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–10pm local, averaging 8.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (6.0 vs 10.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (38% of 253 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.725	—
UNICOM	122.725	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Elevation:: 616 ft
Mag var:: 1° W

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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