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K8N2 ·

Skydive Chicago Airport

41.39980°N

-88.79390°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 10.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 200.0%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 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

84% of ops

59 land · 9 TO

16% of ops

11 land · 18 TO

Runway 21 carries 84% of operations (59 landings, 9 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 03 at 16%.

Approach quality

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

21 59 landings

UA 8%

03 11 landings

UA 9%

Approaches to 21 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 59 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

4.9

flights/day · 146 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 2pm · 6pm

Day vs night

67%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 4.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.4× weekday (8.8 vs 3.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (40% of 146 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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