Baker Flying Service Airport

While no single official reason is documented, the closure is consistent with the pattern seen with many small, private agricultural airfields of that era. The most probable cause is a combination of economic factors, such as the owner of the flying service retiring or the business ceasing operations. Subsequently, the land, being in a prime agricultural area, was fully reclaimed for farming, which was likely its more valuable use.

The site of the former airport has been completely returned to agricultural use. High-resolution satellite imagery of the coordinates (33.10784, -91.253787) shows only cultivated farmland. There are no visible remnants of the runway, taxiways, hangars, or any other aviation-related structures. The land is indistinguishable from the surrounding fields.

Baker Flying Service Airport was a private airfield that served as a base for agricultural aviation (commonly known as crop dusting). Its name clearly indicates it was home to a commercial operation supporting the vast cotton, soybean, and rice farms in the Arkansas Delta region. First appearing on charts in the late 1960s, it featured a single unpaved north/south runway, listed as 2,600 feet long. Its significance was purely local, providing essential aerial application services to farmers in Chicot County and the surrounding area for approximately two decades.

There are no plans or prospects for reopening the Baker Flying Service Airport. The site has been fully repurposed, and all infrastructure has been removed for decades. The general and agricultural aviation needs of the Eudora area are served by the nearby Eudora Municipal Airport (FAA LID: M21), making the redevelopment of this private strip as an airport both unnecessary and economically infeasible.