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Wauchula Municipal Airport

27.51490°N
-81.88050°W
ARR / DAY
18
▲ 63.6%
DEP / DAY
20
▲ 81.8%

Wauchula Municipal Airport (KCHN) is a small general aviation airport located in Wauchula, FL, 36 mi south of Lakeland. It features 1 runway measuring 4,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 18 arrivals and 20 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KSRQ, 42 mi away (KCHN does not publish METAR)

1h ago
Temp
83°F
Wind
8 kts
40°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KSRQ 161453Z 04008KT 10SM CLR 28/24 A3016 RMK AO2 SLP211 T02830239 51012

Runways

1 installed

4,000 FT MAX
18/36
4,000 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

18
73% of ops
303 land · 96 TO
36
27% of ops
112 land · 145 TO
Runway 18 carries 73% of operations (303 landings, 96 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

18 303 landings
UA 1%
36 112 landings
UA 1%
Approaches to 18 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 303 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
23.2
flights/day · 697 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 1pm · 3pm
Day vs night
85%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 23.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (17.5 vs 26.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

175 · 30%
139 · 23%
88 · 15%
28 · 5%
27 · 5%
22 · 4%
Activity is led by (30% of 592 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.900 —
AWOS 118.350 —
AVON PAR 134.550 —
OTHER 134.550 —
AVON PAR 257.700 —
OTHER 257.700 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMA
Mag var:
4° 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
5/10/2011
CHN - Wauchula - Night approach
Same night training flight - Moonless, cloudless. Arriving from the south, fire up the PCL, you can see this one from 10 nm out
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