Madison County Airport

Military decommissioning. The airfield was a World War II-era Naval Outlying Field (OLF) built for a specific purpose: training pilots. With the end of the war in 1945, the massive demand for pilot training ceased. The facility, like hundreds of similar auxiliary fields across the US, was deemed surplus to the military's needs and was subsequently closed and disposed of.

The site is privately owned and has been converted for agricultural and commercial use, primarily as a tree farm or timber tract. The original paved runways, though heavily deteriorated and overgrown with vegetation, are still used as unimproved access roads for forestry and hunting operations within the property. The site is completely abandoned for aviation purposes and is not publicly accessible.

The facility at these coordinates was not a civilian airport named Madison County Airport. It was a military airfield known as Naval Outlying Field (OLF) Lee.

- **Military Role:** It was one of dozens of satellite airfields that supported flight training operations for the much larger Naval Air Station Jacksonville during World War II.
- **Operations:** Its primary function was to provide a safe, uncongested area for student naval aviators to practice fundamental flight maneuvers, particularly takeoffs and landings ('touch-and-go's').
- **Infrastructure:** OLF Lee was constructed circa 1942-1943 and featured two 4,000-foot paved runways arranged in an 'X' pattern, which are still clearly visible in satellite imagery.
- **Note on Identification:** The identifier 'US-10991' is a non-standard code from a third-party airport database and not an official ICAO or FAA designation. The active, public-use airport for the area is Madison County Executive Airport (ICAO: KMDN), located approximately 8 miles west of this abandoned site.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening this airfield. The reasons are numerous:
- The infrastructure is in a state of complete disrepair.
- The land is privately owned and used for other commercial purposes (timber).
- The local aviation needs are fully met by the nearby active Madison County Executive Airport (KMDN).
- The cost to acquire the land and rebuild the facility to modern aviation standards would be prohibitively expensive and without any demonstrated demand.
The site is considered permanently closed.