Liesveld Airport

As a privately owned, private-use airfield, the specific reason for closure is not publicly documented. Closures of such small airports are typically due to the owner's personal or economic decisions, such as retirement, the sale of the property, prohibitive insurance or tax costs, or the decision to repurpose the land for a more profitable use like agriculture, which appears to be the case here.

The airport is permanently closed and no longer exists. An examination of the site at coordinates 40.591099, -96.588898 shows that the land has been fully converted back to agricultural use. The area of the former north-south runway is now an active farm field, with no visible traces of the airstrip, taxiways, or dedicated aviation buildings remaining.

Liesveld Airport was a small, private-use general aviation airport serving its owner and permitted local pilots. It consisted of a single turf runway, designated 17/35, with dimensions of approximately 2,400 feet in length and 100 feet in width. Its operations were characteristic of a rural airstrip, supporting personal and recreational flying in light, single-engine aircraft. It held no major commercial or military significance but was a component of the local general aviation infrastructure for its owner in Lancaster County, Nebraska.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Liesveld Airport. Given that the airport has been officially decommissioned by the FAA for over a decade and the land has been completely reclaimed for farming, the likelihood of it ever being re-established as an airport is extremely low to non-existent.