Able Airpark

Economic and corporate restructuring. The airport was privately owned by the St. Joe Paper Company. During the mid-1990s, the company began a major strategic transition from a paper and forestry conglomerate to a real estate development company (The St. Joe Company). Maintaining a private, low-traffic airstrip was likely deemed non-essential and economically unviable during this corporate shift.

The site has been permanently repurposed for industrial and commercial use. Satellite imagery shows that the northern half of the former runway area is now occupied by several large industrial buildings, storage yards, and processing facilities, including lumber and material companies. The southern portion of the runway's outline is still faintly visible but is overgrown and unusable for any aviation purposes.

Able Airpark was a private, VFR (Visual Flight Rules) only airfield of local importance. Its primary function was to serve the business operations of its owner, the St. Joe Paper Company, which held vast timberlands in the Florida Panhandle. The airport likely facilitated transportation for company executives, surveyors, and personnel to and from these remote holdings. When active, it featured a single 3,000-foot unpaved turf runway (13/31) and handled small, private general aviation aircraft. It never had scheduled commercial service or a significant military role.

Effectively zero. There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Able Airpark. The land has been irreversibly redeveloped with permanent industrial structures built directly on the former runway. Furthermore, the general aviation needs of the Blountstown area are adequately met by the nearby public-use Calhoun County Airport (FAA: F95), eliminating any practical need to restore this private strip.