Airtrek Airport

The exact reason for the closure is not officially documented. However, the pattern of closure is typical for small, privately-owned general aviation airports in the United States. The most likely reasons are economic, such as declining profitability, rising operational costs and taxes, or the owner's retirement. The land was likely sold for more profitable agricultural use, which is its current function.

The site of the former airport is now used for agriculture. Satellite imagery of the coordinates clearly shows that the former north-south turf runway has been plowed and is now part of a larger cultivated farm field. While the faint outline of the runway is still discernible from the air, it is no longer suitable for aviation. Some of the original buildings to the west of the old runway appear to have been repurposed for farm storage or replaced with modern agricultural structures.

Airtrek Airport, which used the FAA Location Identifier 6N8, was a classic local general aviation airfield. It was established sometime before 1965 and served the private flying community in the Waterloo and Seneca County area. It primarily handled single-engine aircraft for recreational flying and potentially flight training through the 'Airtrek Flying Service' which operated there. The airport featured a single unpaved turf runway (Runway 18/36) with a length of approximately 2,200 feet. Its significance lies in being a representative example of the thousands of small, grassroots airports that were crucial to the growth of private aviation in the mid-20th century, many of which have since closed due to economic pressures and land development.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Airtrek Airport. The land has been fully converted to private agricultural use. Re-establishing an airport on the site would be logistically and financially prohibitive, requiring the land to be repurchased from the current owner and a complete reconstruction and recertification of all aviation facilities.