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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
12
▼ 37.2%
DEP / DAY
13
▼ 41.2%

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 12 arrivals and 13 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 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)

28m ago
Temp
55°F
Wind
5 kts
210°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KRFD 171754Z 21005KT 10SM CLR 13/M03 A3053 RMK AO2 SLP343 T01281028 10128 21006 56015 $

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
27% of ops
127 land · 43 TO
27
22% of ops
104 land · 22 TO
12
18% of ops
84 land · 87 TO
17
12% of ops
59 land · 17 TO
35
11% of ops
52 land · 26 TO
09
11% of ops
51 land · 22 TO
Runway 30 carries 27% of operations (127 landings, 43 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 22%.

Approach quality

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

30 127 landings
UA 9%
27 104 landings
UA 9%
12 84 landings
UA 1%
17 59 landings
UA 5%
35 52 landings
UA 4%
09 51 landings
UA 14%
Approaches to 30 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 127 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
26.9
flights/day · 807 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 3pm · 8pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 7pm–8pm local, averaging 26.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (31.1 vs 26.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

123 · 21%
72 · 12%
47 · 8%
34 · 6%
32 · 5%
31 · 5%
Activity is led by (21% of 594 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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