Wildcat Air Landing Area

The specific reason is not officially documented, but evidence strongly indicates the closure was due to the conversion of the land back to its primary agricultural purpose. This is a common economic fate for small, privately-owned rural airstrips where the land becomes more valuable for farming or the owner ceases aviation activities.

The site is currently used for agriculture. The land where the runway once existed has been fully reclaimed as cultivated farmland. On current satellite imagery, the faint, straight-line outline of the former north-south runway is still visible as a 'ghost' imprint on the landscape, a common phenomenon caused by lasting soil compaction. No airport infrastructure, such as hangars or markings, remains.

Wildcat Air Landing Area was a small, private general aviation airfield. It was active from at least the early 1980s until the early 2000s. It featured a single unpaved turf runway, designated 18/36, with a length of approximately 2,600 feet. The airfield was owned by 'Wildcat Inc.' and primarily handled operations for light, single-engine aircraft suitable for grass strips. Its significance was local, serving the recreational or business flying needs of its owner and likely other pilots in the Lafayette area with permission. It was a typical example of the thousands of private-use rural airstrips that supported American general aviation during that period.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the Wildcat Air Landing Area. The land has been in active agricultural use for nearly two decades, and the cost to purchase and re-certify it as an airfield would be substantial. Given its closure and conversion back to farmland, the prospect of it ever reopening as an airport is effectively zero.