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Campbell Airport

42.32460°N
-88.07410°W
ARR / DAY
9
▲ 125.0%
DEP / DAY
10
▲ 42.9%

Campbell Airport (KC81) is a small general aviation airport located in Grayslake, IL, 22 mi north east of Elgin. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,573 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 9 arrivals and 10 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KPWK, 17 mi away (KC81 does not publish METAR)

23m ago
Temp
46°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KPWK 200352Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW075 FEW100 SCT120 08/07 A3038 RMK AO2 SLP291 T00780072

Runway intelligence

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

09
43% of ops
144 land · 176 TO
27
36% of ops
123 land · 136 TO
24
14% of ops
48 land · 36 TO
06
7% of ops
23 land · 4 TO
Runway 09 carries 43% of operations (144 landings, 176 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

09 144 landings
UA 22%
27 123 landings
UA 21%
24 48 landings
UA 19%
06 23 landings
UA 26%
Approaches to 09 show a 22% unstable-approach rate (31 UA events from 144 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
12.7
flights/day · 382 total
Busy hour (local)
10pm
also 8pm · 3pm
Day vs night
58%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–10pm local, averaging 12.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (14.9 vs 12.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 352 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700 —
APCH 120.550 —
APCH 306.925 —
UNICOM 122.700 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAU
Elevation:
788 ft
Mag var:
2° 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
Oblivion
7/18/2007
My aviation birthplace.
I did my Private Pilot training here.
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