Traverse Air Airport

No official reason for the closure is publicly documented. However, the most probable cause is a combination of economic factors and redundancy. As a small, private turf strip, it was likely not financially viable to maintain. Furthermore, the existence of the nearby Wheaton Municipal Airport (ICAO: KETH), a public-use facility with a paved runway and superior amenities, would have made a small private field like Traverse Air largely obsolete for the local aviation community.

The airport is permanently closed and the site has been converted back to agricultural use. Current satellite imagery shows the land is being actively farmed. A faint outline of the former runway is still visible in the field from the air. A single large building, which was likely the airport's hangar, remains on the property and appears to be used as a farm storage building or shed.

Traverse Air Airport was a small, privately owned airfield serving the general aviation community. It featured a single unpaved, north/south turf runway with a length of approximately 2,600 feet. Its operations were limited to light, single-engine aircraft for personal and recreational use. Given its location in a major agricultural region, it may have also supported agricultural aviation operations, such as crop dusting. The airport held no military or commercial significance and served a purely local function for its owner and possibly a few other pilots.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Traverse Air Airport. The land has been fully repurposed for agriculture, and the aviation needs of the Wheaton area are adequately met by the Wheaton Municipal Airport (KETH). Reopening is considered extremely unlikely.