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Campbell Airport

42.32460°N
-88.07410°W
ARR / DAY
3
▼ 66.2%
DEP / DAY
4
▼ 57.1%

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 3 arrivals and 4 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 KPWK, 17 mi away (KC81 does not publish METAR)

27m ago
Temp
65°F
Wind
6 kts
190°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KPWK 191752Z 19006KT 10SM CLR 18/05 A3039 RMK AO2 SLP292 T01830050 10183 20033 58011

Runways

2 installed

3,573 FT MAX
06/24
3,573 ft × 40
COP○ unlit
09/27
3,270 ft × 40
ASP● LITNSTD

Runway intelligence

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

09
43% of ops
140 land · 173 TO
27
35% of ops
112 land · 126 TO
24
15% of ops
48 land · 35 TO
06
7% of ops
23 land · 4 TO
Runway 09 carries 43% of operations (140 landings, 173 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

09 140 landings
UA 20%
27 112 landings
UA 23%
24 48 landings
UA 19%
06 23 landings
UA 26%
Approaches to 09 show a 20% unstable-approach rate (28 UA events from 140 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
12.1
flights/day · 364 total
Busy hour (local)
10pm
also 8pm · 3pm
Day vs night
57%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–10pm local, averaging 12.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (14.9 vs 11.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

76 · 23%
72 · 21%
25 · 7%
25 · 7%
23 · 7%
21 · 6%
Activity is led by (23% of 336 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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