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Wauchula Municipal Airport

27.51490°N
-81.88050°W
ARR / DAY
2
▼ 77.8%
DEP / DAY
2
▼ 87.9%

Wauchula Municipal Airport (KCHN) is a small general aviation airport located in Wauchula, FL, 36 mi south of Lakeland. It features 1 runway measuring 4,005 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 KLAL, 34 mi away (KCHN does not publish METAR)

37m ago
Temp
79°F
Wind
4 kts
100°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KLAL 240555Z AUTO 10004KT 10SM CLR 26/25 A3009 RMK AO2 T02620246 10316 20262 58002 $

Runways

1 installed

4,005 FT MAX
18/36
4,005 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

18
69% of ops
476 land · 171 TO
36
31% of ops
216 land · 288 TO
Runway 18 carries 69% of operations (476 landings, 171 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

18 476 landings
UA 1%
36 216 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 476 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
17.7
flights/day · 532 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 1pm · 3pm
Day vs night
85%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 17.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (15.6 vs 19.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

135 · 30%
121 · 27%
40 · 9%
17 · 4%
17 · 4%
13 · 3%
Activity is led by (30% of 449 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
05/10/2011
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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