Flying C Airport

The specific reason is not officially documented, which is common for small, privately-owned airfields. The closure was almost certainly due to private circumstances rather than a public event. Likely reasons include the owner's retirement or death, the sale of the property, rising liability insurance costs, or a general decline in use, leading to the decision to cease operations and revert the land to other uses.

The site has fully reverted to private agricultural land. The area of the former runway is now an open field, completely overgrown and indistinguishable from the surrounding farmland when viewed from the ground. The faint, straight outline of the former runway is still visible in high-resolution satellite imagery but is no longer suitable for any form of aviation. A private residence, likely connected to the original owners, remains on the property adjacent to the former airfield.

Flying C Airport was a small, privately-owned, public-use general aviation airfield. Its primary operation consisted of a single turf/grass runway, approximately 2,000 feet long, oriented roughly NNE/SSW. The airport served the local aviation community in a rural part of Kent County, providing a base for recreational pilots and owners of light aircraft. It represented a typical mid-20th-century American grass strip, supporting personal and recreational flight without extensive infrastructure. The identifier 'US-11223' is not a standard ICAO code (which are 4 letters) but is a non-standard identifier used by certain mapping or aviation databases; the airport did not have an official FAA Location Identifier or IATA code.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Flying C Airport. The land is privately held and has been used for agriculture for over two decades. Re-establishing an airport would require significant capital investment, FAA recertification, and the willingness of the current landowner. Given the long period of closure and the reversion of the land to agricultural use, the prospect of it ever becoming an airport again is extremely low.