Shaffer Airport

The specific reason is not officially documented, which is common for small private airfields. The closure was most likely due to the cessation of private use by its owner. When the owner stopped flying (due to age, cost, or selling the property), the land was fully reverted to its primary agricultural purpose. There is no evidence of closure due to a major accident, military conversion, or broader economic failure.

The airport is permanently closed and no longer exists as an aviation facility. The land has been completely reclaimed for agriculture. High-resolution satellite imagery clearly shows the former runway area is now a cultivated farm field. The faint outline of the former turf runway is still visible from the air, but the site is now part of a private farmstead.

Shaffer Airport was a small, private general aviation airfield. Its significance was purely local, serving its owner and possibly other local pilots. It was established sometime between 1960 and 1969. The 1982 AOPA Airports USA Directory listed it as a private field owned by Robert Shaffer, featuring a single unpaved 2,600-foot turf runway aligned northwest/southeast. Operations would have been limited to light, single-engine aircraft (like Cessnas or Pipers) for personal and recreational flying. It was never a commercial, public, or military facility.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Shaffer Airport. Given that the land has been fully converted to active farmland for over two decades, reopening is considered extremely unlikely and would require the current landowner to cease farming operations and reinvest in re-establishing the airfield.