Dwight Field

The specific reason for closure is not officially documented. As a small, privately owned airfield, the closure was likely due to the owner's personal decision, which could have been influenced by factors such as retirement, sale of the property, or the rising costs of maintenance and liability insurance. This pattern is common for the disappearance of small general aviation airports in the US.

The site is now private land used for agriculture. Current satellite imagery shows that the area of the former north-south runway is now a mowed field or pasture. The faint outline of the runway is still visible from the air. A large building, likely the original hangar, still stands at the north end of the former runway.

Dwight Field was a private general aviation airport that served the local flying community in Licking County, Ohio. First appearing on charts around 1970, it featured a single unpaved turf runway, listed in the 1982 AOPA Airports USA Directory as being 2,600 feet long. The airport was owned by D. Dwight and primarily handled operations for light, single-engine aircraft like Cessnas and Pipers for personal and recreational use. Its history is representative of the many small, private grass strips that were once common across the American Midwest.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Dwight Field. Having been closed for over 25 years and with the land fully integrated into private agricultural use, the likelihood of it ever returning to service as an airport is extremely low.