Moccasin Creek Airport

As a private airfield, the closure was not due to a public event like an accident, economic downturn, or military conversion. The most probable reason is a cessation of aviation activities by the property owner, Moccasin Creek Plantation. This is common for private airfields and may have been prompted by a change in property ownership, a shift in the owner's priorities, or a decision to no longer bear the cost and liability of maintaining a registered airfield.

The site is part of the privately-owned Moccasin Creek Plantation. The former runway is no longer maintained for aviation and has reverted to a field. Its outline is still faintly visible in satellite imagery as a long, straight clearing, but it is overgrown with grass and indistinguishable from the surrounding agricultural land from the ground. The land is currently used for agriculture or as part of the general plantation grounds.

Moccasin Creek Airport, which used the former FAA identifier SC99, was a private-use general aviation airfield. It was established sometime between 1972 and 1981. Its sole purpose was to serve the Moccasin Creek Plantation, a large private estate in Bamberg County, South Carolina. When active, it featured a single unpaved north-south turf runway, approximately 3,000 feet long. Operations would have consisted of light, single-engine or small twin-engine aircraft used for the personal and business transportation of the plantation's owners and guests. Its significance was entirely local, providing convenient air access to a remote private property.

There are no known public plans or prospects for reopening the airport. As the land is privately owned, any decision to restore the airfield would be solely at the discretion and expense of the current landowner. Given the length of time it has been officially closed and the current state of the former runway, a reopening is considered highly unlikely.