Benger Air Park

The closure was due to a change in land use for economic reasons. Benger Air Park was a small, privately-owned airfield. The surrounding area is dominated by agriculture, particularly large cattle feedlots. The land occupied by the airstrip was repurposed and integrated into an expanding feedlot operation, which was a more economically valuable use for the property.

The site of the former Benger Air Park is now completely occupied by a large-scale commercial cattle feedlot. Satellite imagery of the coordinates shows numerous cattle pens, feed lanes, and associated agricultural infrastructure covering the exact location of the former runway. All traces of the airport have been completely obliterated.

Benger Air Park was a private general aviation airfield that served the local community of Friona, Texas. It was likely established in the late 1960s, first appearing on a 1970 sectional chart. The airport, owned by W. Benger, featured a single 3,000-foot unpaved turf runway (17/35). Operations would have consisted of light, single-engine aircraft used for personal transportation, business, and potentially agricultural support. Its significance was purely local, representing one of the many small, private airstrips that supported rural general aviation across the United States in the latter half of the 20th century.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The land has been irreversibly redeveloped for intensive agricultural use. Re-establishing an airfield at this location would require the acquisition and complete demolition of the existing, active feedlot operation, making it economically and logistically infeasible.