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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
26
▲ 4.5%
DEP / DAY
27
▲ 6.1%

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 26 arrivals and 27 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Go-arounds
0
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Rejected takeoffs
0
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Unstable approaches
1
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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
10 kts
240°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KRFD 180854Z 24010KT 10SM SCT250 26/23 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP120 T02560228 55009 $

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
29% of ops
709 land · 674 TO
12
23% of ops
563 land · 302 TO
17
12% of ops
304 land · 92 TO
27
12% of ops
299 land · 130 TO
09
12% of ops
294 land · 73 TO
35
11% of ops
280 land · 125 TO
Runway 30 carries 29% of operations (709 landings, 674 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

30 709 landings
UA 5%
12 563 landings
UA 7%
17 304 landings
UA 10%
27 299 landings
UA 3%
09 294 landings
UA 6%
35 280 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 30 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (32 UA events from 709 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
37.9
flights/day · 1,138 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 3pm · 7pm
Day vs night
68%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–7pm local, averaging 37.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (35.4 vs 40.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

197 · 23%
145 · 17%
64 · 7%
61 · 7%
49 · 6%
38 · 4%
Activity is led by (23% of 870 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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