Colfax Airport

While no single official reason is documented, the closure is characteristic of many small town general aviation airports in that era. The most likely cause is economic non-viability. Factors probably included low air traffic volume, the high cost of maintenance and potential upgrades (such as paving the runway) for the small municipality of Colfax, and the land having greater value for other purposes, such as agriculture or timber.

The site of the former airport is now used as a commercial tree farm. High-resolution satellite imagery of the coordinates clearly shows the faint but unmistakable outline of the former runway. The land is covered in rows of planted trees, and the old runway path exists as a dirt or grass track through the timberland. There are no remaining signs of airport infrastructure like hangars, terminals, or other buildings.

Colfax Airport served as the municipal airport for Colfax, Louisiana, and the surrounding Grant Parish. It was a small, public-use general aviation facility. Aeronautical charts from the 1960s show it had a single unpaved, turf runway oriented north-south with a length of approximately 3,000 feet. Its operations would have been limited to small private aircraft, supporting local business, personal travel, and likely agricultural aviation services like crop dusting, which is common in rural Louisiana. It had no known major commercial or military role.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the Colfax Airport. The land has been repurposed for commercial agriculture (timber) for approximately 50 years and is privately owned. The significant cost of reacquiring the land, clearing the extensive tree growth, and completely rebuilding the airport infrastructure from scratch makes any such project prohibitively expensive and economically infeasible.