Breckenridge Army Airfield

Military base closure and decommissioning. The airfield was an auxiliary component of the U.S. Army's Camp Breckinridge. After the Korean War, the camp was deemed surplus to the military's needs. The entire installation, including the airfield, was officially closed and the land was subsequently sold and repurposed.

The site of the former airfield and the larger Camp Breckinridge has been completely redeveloped. The land is now home to the Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center, a major residential education and vocational training facility run by the U.S. Department of Labor. Another portion of the former base is the Morganfield Industrial Park. While faint outlines of the original runways can still be seen in satellite imagery, they are heavily degraded and have been built over with roads, buildings, and storage facilities for the Job Corps and industrial tenants. The site is in no way usable for aviation.

Breckenridge Army Airfield was not a standalone airport but an integral part of Camp Breckinridge, a massive U.S. Army training facility established in 1942. The camp's primary purpose was to train infantry divisions for World War II and later for the Korean War, processing over 300,000 soldiers. The airfield's operations were entirely in support of the camp. It handled military transport aircraft (such as the C-47 Skytrain) bringing in personnel and supplies, liaison and observation aircraft for training exercises, and other general utility flights required by a large military installation. The camp also housed a significant German prisoner-of-war camp during WWII, and the airfield would have played a role in its logistics. Its historical importance is therefore tied directly to its support role in one of the major U.S. military training centers of the mid-20th century.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the site as an airport. The extensive redevelopment of the land for institutional (Job Corps) and industrial purposes since the 1960s makes a return to aviation functionally impossible without the complete removal of the existing facilities. There is no political or economic motivation for such a project, especially with the Morganfield Municipal Airport (KY4) located just a few miles away to serve the community's general aviation needs.