Heeg Airport

The specific reason is not documented. As a private farm strip, the most probable reason for closure is that the owner ceased flight operations. This could be due to the sale of the land, the owner's retirement from flying, the high cost of maintaining an aircraft and airstrip, or the death of the owner. The land was subsequently fully converted back to agricultural use.

The site is currently private agricultural land. Satellite imagery confirms the area at coordinates 41.007111, -90.882896 is actively farmed, likely with crops such as corn or soybeans. There are no visible remnants of a runway, hangars, or any other aviation-related infrastructure.

Heeg Airport appears to have been a small, private, and likely unregistered turf airstrip. Its identifier, US-11414, is not an official ICAO or FAA code but a placeholder used by non-governmental, crowd-sourced aviation databases for unlisted or closed fields. The airport's significance was limited to the personal, recreational, or agricultural use of its owner, likely a local resident with the surname Heeg. It did not support commercial or military operations and does not appear on official historical aeronautical charts or government surveys, indicating its private and unofficial nature.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The land is privately owned and utilized as productive farmland. Re-establishing an airfield would be at the sole discretion and expense of the landowner and is considered extremely unlikely.