Podell Airport

The airport was a small, privately owned field. While the specific reason for its closure is not officially documented, such airfields typically close due to economic factors, such as the high cost of maintenance and insurance, the owner's retirement or death, or the sale of the land for more profitable use, like agriculture. There is no evidence of a major accident or military conversion leading to the closure.

The site of the former airport has been fully converted back to agricultural use. Satellite imagery of the coordinates (41.1264, -86.693298) clearly shows the land is now part of a larger cultivated farm field. A faint outline of the former north-south runway is sometimes still visible as a scar in the landscape or a variation in crop growth, but no airport infrastructure like hangars or markings remains.

Podell Airport (formerly FAA identifier: 6IN3) was a private general aviation airfield. It served a limited role for recreational flying and personal transport for its owner, Robert Podell, and potentially other local pilots. The airport featured a single unpaved turf runway, designated 18/36, with a length of approximately 2,600 feet. It never handled commercial traffic and was a characteristic example of the numerous small, private grass strips that were common across rural America in the mid-20th century.

None. There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Podell Airport. The land has been successfully reclaimed for agriculture for several decades, and the demand for a new general aviation airport in this specific rural location is virtually nonexistent.