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Poplar Grove Airport

42.32290°N
-88.83630°W
ARR / DAY
2
▼ 91.5%
DEP / DAY
2
▼ 92.1%

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 2 arrivals and 2 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)

39m ago
Temp
88°F
Wind
7 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KRFD 261954Z 20007KT 10SM SCT034 BKN043 BKN250 31/26 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP113 T03110256 $

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
498 land · 434 TO
12
23% of ops
378 land · 209 TO
27
12% of ops
198 land · 91 TO
17
12% of ops
192 land · 69 TO
35
11% of ops
175 land · 69 TO
09
10% of ops
168 land · 58 TO
Runway 30 carries 31% of operations (498 landings, 434 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

30 498 landings
UA 5%
12 378 landings
UA 9%
27 198 landings
UA 5%
17 192 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 498 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
29.2
flights/day · 877 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 2pm · 1pm
Day vs night
69%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 29.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (38.6 vs 27.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

147 · 23%
101 · 16%
52 · 8%
51 · 8%
30 · 5%
28 · 4%
Activity is led by (23% of 650 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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