S&S Flying Service Airport

The closure was due to economic reasons, specifically the retirement of its owner and operator. The airport was a private field that existed solely to support the owner's business, S&S Flying Service. When the owner, William L. 'Billy' Sconyers, ceased his agricultural flying operations, the airfield was no longer needed and was subsequently closed.

The site of the former airport is now used for agriculture. Satellite imagery of the coordinates shows that the area of the former north-south turf runway has been converted into a cultivated farm field. While the faint outline of the runway is still discernible, the land is actively farmed. The original buildings, likely the hangar and associated residence/office, appear to still be standing at the north end of the property.

S&S Flying Service Airport, which had the FAA identifier 3GA5, was a private airfield crucial to the local agricultural economy of Wilcox County. Its primary function was to serve as the base for S&S Flying Service, an agricultural aviation business specializing in crop dusting. The airport featured a single 3,000-foot unpaved turf runway and was operated by W.L. Sconyers for approximately 40 years, from at least the mid-1970s until its closure in the early 2000s. Its significance was entirely local, providing essential aerial application services to nearby farms.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The land has been fully repurposed for agricultural use, and the original owner/operator is deceased. Given its history as a small, private-use strip tied to a now-defunct business, the likelihood of it ever being restored as an aviation facility is extremely low to non-existent.