Christy's Airport

The specific reason for the closure is not publicly documented. As is common with small, privately owned airfields, the closure was most likely due to economic or personal reasons for the owner. These can include the sale of the property, prohibitive costs of insurance and maintenance, the owner's retirement from aviation, or the owner's passing. There is no indication that it was closed due to a major accident, environmental issues, or military conversion.

The site of the former Christy's Airport has been fully reclaimed for agricultural use. High-resolution satellite imagery of the coordinates shows active farmland. The faint outline of the former north-south runway is still visible as a 'ghost' feature in the cultivated fields, a common remnant of abandoned turf airfields. There are no remaining signs of airport infrastructure such as hangars, wind indicators, or runway markers.

Christy's Airport was a small, private general aviation airfield. It featured a single north-south turf runway, listed in records as being approximately 2,600 feet long. Its primary purpose was to support recreational flying for its owner and likely other local pilots with permission. Given its location in a rural, agricultural area, it may have also occasionally supported agricultural aircraft (crop dusters). Its significance was entirely local, serving as a private aviation facility for the Napoleon community before the development and prominence of the nearby public Henry County Airport (7W5).

There are no plans or prospects for reopening Christy's Airport. The land is privately owned and has been actively farmed for decades. Re-establishing an airport on the site would be logistically and financially unfeasible, requiring the repurchase of the land from its current owner and significant investment to meet modern aviation standards. The airport is considered permanently closed.