Cridler Airport

No official reason for the closure is documented, which is common for small, privately-owned airfields. The closure was most likely due to private economic reasons, such as the owner selling the property, ceasing aviation activities, or the land becoming more valuable for agriculture. The subsequent conversion of the runway into a farm field supports this conclusion.

The site of the former Cridler Airport is now entirely private agricultural land. The area has been fully converted to a farm field, and the former runway is now planted with crops. A faint outline of the runway's north-south orientation is still discernible in satellite imagery, but no physical infrastructure like hangars, lighting, or markings remains. A private farm residence and outbuildings are located at the southern end of the former airstrip.

Cridler Airport was a private general aviation airfield established sometime between 1968 and 1972. It was the second airfield to bear the name, serving as a replacement for the original Cridler Field which was located closer to Lowell and closed in the 1960s. The airport featured a single unpaved, north-south turf runway with a length of approximately 2,600 feet. Its operations were limited to serving local private pilots and their light aircraft, such as single-engine Cessnas and Pipers, for recreational purposes. It held no military or commercial significance.

There are no plans or prospects for reopening Cridler Airport. The land has been completely repurposed for agriculture, and all aviation infrastructure has been removed for two decades. Re-establishing an airport would be prohibitively expensive and require the purchase and rezoning of private farmland, making it extremely unlikely.