Minooka, US 🇺🇸 Closed Airport
US-10810
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580 ft
US-IL
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Local Code: Not available
Location: 41.507° N, -88.277802° E
Continent: NA
Type: Closed Airport
Keywords: 84IL
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| Designation | Length | Width | Surface | Status |
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09/27 |
2400 ft | 70 ft | TURF | Active |
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Circa 2018-2019. Analysis of historical satellite imagery shows the airstrip was intact and appeared operational through 2016. By mid-2019, the site was being cleared and graded for major construction, indicating the airport had permanently closed in the intervening period.
Economic redevelopment. The airport was located on private farmland in a strategically valuable location near the intersection of Interstates I-80 and I-55. The land was sold and redeveloped into a large-scale industrial and logistics park to meet the high demand for warehousing and distribution centers in the Chicago metropolitan area.
The site has been completely and irreversibly transformed. It is now occupied by massive industrial warehouses and distribution centers, part of the extensive logistics hub development in Minooka and the surrounding Will County area. All traces of the former runway, hangar, and farmland have been obliterated by this new construction.
Rossi's Farm Airport was a private, unpaved turf runway. Its primary function was to serve the personal, recreational, and potentially agricultural aviation needs of its owners, the Rossi family, who were local farmers. It was a typical example of a private 'farm strip' common in rural America, handling small, single-engine general aviation aircraft. It held local significance for its owners and the immediate aviation community but was not a publicly accessible or commercially significant airport.
Zero. There are no plans or prospects for the airport to reopen. The land has been permanently converted to a high-value industrial use, and the infrastructure for the airport no longer exists.
You wouldn't want to do that in real life as it's a private "prior permission required" and as you might have seen in a recent comment on another such airport, landing without permission can lead to dire legal consequences if not outright violence.
I have landed hundreds of time with my Cessna 172 on this airport (on FSX) as a starting or ending point to Joliet Regl, Lewis University, Clow Int, Naper aero club, Brookeridge air park, Chicago Midway. I am an italian guy, and i live in Padova, Italy.
I have landed hundreds of time on this airport (on FSX) as a starting or ending point to Joliet Regl, Lewis University, Clow Int, Naper aero club, Brookeridge air park, Chicago Midway