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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
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Poplar Grove Airport (KC77) is a small general aviation airport located in Poplar Grove, IL. It features 3 runways with the longest being 3,773 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
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Return to field
0

Current weather

From KRFD, 16 mi away (KC77 does not publish METAR)

38m ago
Temp
78°F
Wind
7 kts
190°
Visib
402 m
Ceil
—
KRFD 270654Z 19007KT 1/4SM FG VV002 26/26 A2985 RMK AO2 SLP100 T02560256 RVRNO $

Runways

3 installed

3,773 FT MAX
09/27
2,709 ft × 200
GRS○ unlit
12/30
3,773 ft × 50
ASP● LITLOW
17/35
2,467 ft × 150
GRS○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

30
31% of ops
492 land · 431 TO
12
23% of ops
368 land · 200 TO
27
12% of ops
189 land · 91 TO
17
12% of ops
189 land · 69 TO
35
11% of ops
175 land · 69 TO
09
11% of ops
168 land · 55 TO
Runway 30 carries 31% of operations (492 landings, 431 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 23%.

Approach quality

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

30 492 landings
UA 5%
12 368 landings
UA 9%
27 189 landings
UA 5%
17 189 landings
UA 13%
35 175 landings
UA 7%
09 168 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 30 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (27 UA events from 492 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
28.6
flights/day · 859 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 2pm · 1pm
Day vs night
70%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 28.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (38.0 vs 26.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

143 · 22%
98 · 15%
50 · 8%
50 · 8%
30 · 5%
28 · 4%
Activity is led by (22% of 636 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 121.000 —
APCH 327.000 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Mag var:
3° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
airbound
05/11/2011
C77 - Poplar Grove - Hard and Soft
Great airport for both Hard surface and soft surface TO/LDG
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