Lutz Airport

The specific reason is not publicly documented. Lutz Airport was a private-use airstrip, and such fields typically close for personal reasons related to the owner. Common reasons include the owner's retirement from flying, declining health, the sale of the property, or the owner passing away. The closure was not due to military conversion, a major accident, or the economic failure of a public facility.

The site is currently private property and appears to be part of a farm or a large rural residence. Satellite imagery shows that the former grass runway is no longer distinct from the surrounding land and is maintained as a mowed field or lawn. A building on the property, which was likely the hangar, still stands. The land is used for residential and/or agricultural purposes.

Lutz Airport held local significance as a private general aviation facility. It was a simple grass runway likely used by its owner for recreational flying and possibly agricultural purposes. Operations would have been limited to small, single-engine aircraft like Pipers or Cessnas. It did not handle commercial, cargo, or scheduled passenger services and had no official FAA identifier, indicating its strictly private nature. The identifier 'US-10957' is an internal code from a non-governmental airport database, not an official ICAO or FAA code.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Lutz Airport. The decision to reactivate the airstrip would be entirely at the discretion of the current landowner. Given that it has been closed for over a decade and the land has been repurposed, a return to aviation use is considered highly unlikely.