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Wauchula Municipal Airport

27.51490°N
-81.88050°W
ARR / DAY
12
▲ 162.5%
DEP / DAY
15
▲ 107.7%

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 12 arrivals and 15 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)

52m ago
Temp
70°F
Wind
11 kts
20°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KLAL 200050Z 02011KT 10SM SKC 21/17 A3013

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
69% of ops
210 land · 46 TO
36
31% of ops
93 land · 101 TO
Runway 18 carries 69% of operations (210 landings, 46 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

18 210 landings
UA 2%
36 93 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 18 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 210 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
21.6
flights/day · 647 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 3pm · 5pm
Day vs night
78%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 21.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (18.6 vs 23.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

138 · 26%
92 · 18%
83 · 16%
25 · 5%
23 · 4%
20 · 4%
Activity is led by (26% of 523 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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