Hunter Raffety Elevators Inc Airport

Corporate acquisition and subsequent abandonment. The airport was a private facility for the Hunter Raffety grain company. When the company's assets, including the Cairo grain elevator, were sold to the much larger corporation ADM, the new owner likely had no operational need for a small, private airstrip at this specific location and ceased its maintenance and use.

The site of the former airport is now agricultural land. The adjacent grain elevator facility is owned and operated by ADM Grain Company. Satellite imagery clearly shows the location of the former north-south grass runway, but it is completely overgrown and has been integrated into the surrounding farmland. There are no remaining aviation structures such as hangars, lighting, or markings.

The airport, also known as Hunter-Raffety Airstrip, was a private-use facility with no major historical significance beyond its local utility. Its primary function was to serve the business operations of Hunter Raffety Elevators Inc., a regional grain company. Operations would have been limited to light, general aviation aircraft (likely single or twin-engine propeller planes) used for corporate transport of executives and personnel between company sites or for agricultural survey purposes. It was not a public airport and did not handle commercial or military traffic. The ICAO code 'US-10938' is an internal identifier used by non-governmental aviation databases for historical tracking and is not an official FAA or ICAO designation.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The land has been fully repurposed for agriculture for several decades, and the original corporate entity that required it no longer exists. The current landowner, ADM, has shown no interest in restoring the facility. Re-establishing an airport on the site would be cost-prohibitive with no apparent demand.