Zukeran Airfield

Not applicable. As the airfield does not appear to have existed as an officially designated entity, there is no closure event or reason.

The site at the specified coordinates is the active U.S. Marine Corps base, Camp Foster. It houses the headquarters of Marine Corps Installations Pacific and Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler. The base includes administrative buildings, barracks, family housing, schools, a naval hospital, and other support facilities for military personnel and their families. There is no airfield at this location, though helicopter landing zones (helipads) exist on the base for rotary-wing aircraft.

The name 'Zukeran' and the provided coordinates point to the location of Camp Zukeran (キャンプ瑞慶覧), which is the local name for the United States Marine Corps installation, Camp Foster. This base was established by U.S. forces on Okinawa following the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. It has since served as a major command, administrative, and logistical hub for the Marine Corps in the Pacific. While Camp Foster is a critical military installation, it does not have, nor did it historically have, a fixed-wing runway or an airfield. Air operations for the Marines in this area are handled by the nearby Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (ICAO: ROTM) and the U.S. Air Force's Kadena Air Base (ICAO: RODN). The name 'Zukeran Airfield' is likely a misnomer, conflating the name of the base (Zukeran) with the function of the nearby air stations.

There are no prospects for this location to 'reopen' as an airfield, as it was never an airfield to begin with. The site is an active, high-value U.S. military installation with no plans for conversion into an airport.