Leise Airport

The specific reason for closure is not officially documented. As a small, privately owned airfield (owned by Robert Leise), its closure was likely due to common factors affecting such strips, such as the owner's retirement from flying, economic non-viability, or the sale of the property. The immediate and complete conversion of the land back to agricultural use strongly suggests an economic decision to prioritize farming over maintaining a private airstrip.

The site of the former Leise Airport has been fully returned to agricultural use. Current satellite imagery of the coordinates shows that the land where the runway once existed is now an active, tilled farm field, completely integrated with the surrounding farmland. There are no visible remnants of the runway, hangars, or any other aviation-related infrastructure.

Leise Airport (formerly assigned the FAA identifier 8IA4) was a private-use general aviation airfield established sometime between 1968 and 1972. It featured a single turf runway, oriented 17/35, with a length of approximately 2,640 feet. Its primary function was to support the personal and recreational flying activities of its owner and possibly other local pilots who had permission to use it. The airport was a typical example of the thousands of small, private grass airstrips that were common across the rural American Midwest, serving as a personal base for light aircraft operations.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Leise Airport. The land is privately owned and has been actively and continuously farmed for nearly two decades, making any future conversion back to an airfield extremely unlikely.