Wellborn Airport

The specific reason for the airport's closure is not publicly documented. For small, private airfields like Wellborn Airport, closure is commonly due to economic factors, the sale of the property, the owner ceasing aviation activities for personal reasons (e.g., retirement, health), or an inability to maintain the field to safe standards. There is no evidence to suggest it was closed due to a major accident or for military conversion.

The site is currently undeveloped private land. The faint outline of the former north/south grass runway is still clearly visible in satellite imagery, but it is overgrown and unmaintained. The land has reverted to a field and is used for agriculture or is simply fallow. There are no remaining airport structures on the site.

Wellborn Airport was a small, private general aviation airfield. Its history appears to begin in the early 1970s, as it was not depicted on aeronautical charts from the 1960s but appeared on the 1972 Jacksonville Sectional Chart. It operated with a single, unpaved north/south grass runway, which was listed as being 3,000 feet in length. The airport was a very basic facility, likely without permanent hangars, fuel services, or a terminal, typical of a private-use strip for recreational flying. Its significance was primarily local, serving the needs of its private owner(s) and possibly a few other local pilots.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Wellborn Airport. As a privately owned property that has been officially closed and non-operational for about two decades, the likelihood of it being restored as an airfield is extremely low.