Coastal Airport

Military consolidation and base realignment. The airport, officially known as Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Ellyson Field, was closed as part of a post-Vietnam War reduction of military installations. Its training functions were consolidated and moved to the nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola and Naval Air Station Whiting Field.

The site has been completely redeveloped. It is now the Ellyson Industrial Park, a large commercial and industrial zone. The area also includes a campus for Pensacola State College, residential neighborhoods, and various businesses. While the airport is gone, some of the infrastructure, such as roads like Ellyson Field Drive and Brewer Circle, follow the layout of the former runways and taxiways, serving as a faint reminder of the site's aviation past.

The identifier 'Coastal Airport (US-10804)' is a non-official designation found in some third-party databases for this closed airfield. Its official and historical name was NAAS Ellyson Field. Commissioned in 1941, it was a crucial training facility for the U.S. Navy. It was named in honor of Commander Theodore G. 'Spuds' Ellyson, the first naval aviator of the United States. During World War II and the post-war era, thousands of student naval aviators received primary and advanced landplane training at Ellyson Field. In the 1950s and 1960s, it became a major center for helicopter training. At the time of its closure, it hosted the headquarters for the Naval Air Basic Training Command.

None. The land has been fully and permanently repurposed for industrial, commercial, educational, and residential use. There are no plans or possibilities for reopening it as an airport.