Brookside Farms Airport

The airport was closed due to the sale of the land. It was a private airfield located on Brookside Farms, the estate of the H.B. Reese family (of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups). In 1978, the Reese family sold the 257-acre farm to the Milton Hershey School Trust. The new owners had no use for a private airport and subsequently redeveloped the land for their own purposes, making the airfield obsolete.

The site of the former airport has been completely redeveloped and is now unrecognizable as an airfield. The land is part of the Milton Hershey School's campus. The area where the runway and hangar once stood is now occupied by student homes, administrative buildings, and recreational fields for the school's 'Brookside' division. There are no remaining traces of the runway or any aviation facilities.

Brookside Farms Airport was a private-use airfield owned and operated by the sons of Harry Burnett Reese, the founder of the H.B. Reese Candy Company. The Reese family were avid aviators and used the airport for personal and business travel. The airfield featured a single paved north-south runway, approximately 3,000 feet long, and at least one hangar. It served as a private hub for the prominent local family, reflecting the personal aviation boom among successful business owners in the mid-20th century. It was never a public airport and handled only general aviation traffic for its owners.

None. The land has been fully and permanently repurposed for the Milton Hershey School's campus. The extensive development, including buildings and infrastructure, makes any prospect of reopening the airport impossible.