Poplar Grove Airport
C77 · Poplar Grove, Illinois · Boone County · map
Poplar Grove Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles south of Poplar Grove, Illinois, 857 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 3,773 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C77
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 857 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, sunrise to sunset
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1972
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,773 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good | Low-intensity lights |
| 09/27 | 2,709 × 200 ft | Grass, good | |
| 17/35 | 2,467 × 150 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 12: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 27: tree 62 ft high 655 ft from the end
- Runway 17: threshold displaced 220 ft, road on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.0 |
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Aircraft registered in Poplar Grove from the FAA register
168 aircraft are registered to owners in Poplar Grove, Illinois: 147 piston singles, 14 piston twins, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 drones, 1 glider. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 since 1982, 3 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Altitude blake thomas
- Closed when snow covered except to ski aircraft.
- Closed when snow covered except to ski aircraft.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights due to spacing, intst and NON-FRANGIBLE mountings.
- Marked with white bars under numbers; no arrows.
- Marked with three cones on each side of runway.
- Calm wind runway.
- Approach slope is 32:1 at displaced threshold.
- Approach slope is 20:1 at displaced threshold.
- Caution: impaired sight clncs between runway ends due to rolling trrn.
- Runway 12/30 markings poor.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.