Fernald Field

The airport was a private-use airfield. While the specific reason for its closure is not officially documented, it is characteristic of small, private strips that cease operations due to personal reasons of the owner. This can include the owner's retirement from flying, sale of the property, prohibitive costs of insurance and maintenance, or the owner's passing. There is no evidence of closure due to a specific accident, regulatory action, or military conversion.

The site is currently part of a private residential property. Satellite imagery clearly shows the former runway area is now maintained as a large, mowed lawn behind a house. The distinct, straight outline of the 1,800-foot airstrip is still perfectly visible from the air, but it is no longer used for any aviation activities. The land has been fully repurposed for private residential use.

Fernald Field was a small, private general aviation airfield. Its primary significance was local, serving as a personal airstrip for its owner, George Fernald, and likely his associates. It was first listed in the 1982 AOPA Airport Directory, which described it as having a single 1,800-foot unpaved turf runway, designated Runway 1/19. Operations would have been limited to light, single-engine aircraft typical of private recreational flying. The ICAO identifier, US-0746, was a non-official code assigned by aviation databases for tracking purposes, indicating it was not part of the national public airport system.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Fernald Field. As the land is privately owned and integrated into a residential property, reopening it as an airfield is considered extremely unlikely. It would require the current landowner to pursue re-certification and dedicate the land back to aviation use, for which there is no public or known private initiative.