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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
5
▲ 400.0%
DEP / DAY
4
▲ 100.0%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

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

56m ago
Temp
75°F
Wind
4 kts
150°
Visib
4023 m
Ceil
—
KRFD 151759Z 15004KT 2 1/2SM BR BKN009 OVC015 24/23 A3005 RMK AO2 CIG 006V011 T02390228 $

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
30% of ops
289 land · 240 TO
12
24% of ops
234 land · 115 TO
09
12% of ops
118 land · 23 TO
35
12% of ops
118 land · 83 TO
17
12% of ops
113 land · 41 TO
27
10% of ops
100 land · 57 TO
Runway 30 carries 30% of operations (289 landings, 240 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

30 289 landings
UA 8%
12 234 landings
UA 6%
09 118 landings
UA 4%
35 118 landings
UA 2%
17 113 landings
UA 9%
27 100 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 30 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (22 UA events from 289 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
30.0
flights/day · 901 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 2pm · 3pm
Day vs night
65%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 30.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (29.9 vs 31.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

151 · 23%
102 · 16%
64 · 10%
43 · 7%
28 · 4%
28 · 4%
Activity is led by (23% of 653 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
5/11/2011
C77 - Poplar Grove - Hard and Soft
Great airport for both Hard surface and soft surface TO/LDG
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