Highgate South Airport

The specific reason for closure is not publicly documented, which is common for small, private airfields. However, the most likely reason is economic or a change in personal circumstances for the private owner. The land has been reintegrated into surrounding farmland, suggesting the owner ceased aviation operations in favor of agriculture or sold the property.

The site is now private farmland. Satellite imagery of the coordinates (42.468953, -81.831107) clearly shows that the land has been returned to agricultural use. The faint outline of the former east/west runway is still visible as a mown grass strip within a larger cultivated field, likely used as a farm lane or simply left as a remnant of its past use.

Highgate South Airport was a small, private aerodrome primarily used for general aviation and recreational flying. It was never a commercial or military facility. According to the Canada Flight Supplement and historical VFR charts, it featured a single turf runway, designated 09/27, with a length of approximately 2,640 feet (805 meters). Its significance was purely local, serving the needs of its owner and potentially other pilots in the rural community of Chatham-Kent.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Highgate South Airport. Given that it has been closed for over a decade and the land has been repurposed for agriculture, the likelihood of it ever returning to service as an active aerodrome is virtually zero.