Petit Fay Airfield

Cessation of private operations. As a small, private ULM (Ultralight Motorized) airfield, its closure was not due to a major event like an accident or military conversion. The most common reasons for such closures are personal or economic: the owner may have sold the land, ceased flying activities, found maintenance costs prohibitive, or passed away. The land appears to have been fully returned to agricultural use by the adjacent farm.

The site has been fully returned to agricultural use. Satellite imagery from 2022 onwards shows the land where the runway was located is now actively farmed, with visible crop lines and tractor marks. The faint outline of the former grass strip is still discernible from the air, but it is no longer a functional runway. The associated buildings are part of the active farm complex, Ferme du Petit Fay.

Petit Fay Airfield, also known by the French ULM designator LF8921, was a private airfield dedicated to recreational ultralight aviation. It consisted of a single grass runway, approximately 400 meters long and 20 meters wide (orientation roughly 02/20). Its significance was purely local, serving the owner and potentially a small community of local ULM pilots in the Yonne department. It was not a public airport and handled no commercial or scheduled traffic. The airfield was located on the property of the 'Ferme du Petit Fay' (Petit Fay Farm).

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airfield. Given that it was a private strip and the land has been reintegrated into an active farm, reopening is considered highly improbable. Re-establishing an airfield would require significant private investment and a new, complex permitting process with French aviation authorities (DGAC), which is unlikely for a site of this nature.