Willow Bunch Airport

While no single official reason is cited, the closure is consistent with the trend for small, rural aerodromes in Canada. The primary reasons are presumed to be economic, including the high cost of maintenance, insurance, and operations relative to the low volume of traffic. A decline in local general aviation activity and the owner no longer wishing to maintain the facility are also highly probable factors.

The site of the former Willow Bunch Airport has been fully converted to agricultural use. Satellite imagery of the coordinates (49.400002, -105.667) shows the land is actively being farmed. A faint outline of the former northwest/southeast runway is still visible from the air, but there are no remaining airport structures such as hangars, terminals, or navigational aids on the property.

Willow Bunch Airport was a small, unregistered aerodrome serving the town of Willow Bunch and the surrounding rural municipality in Saskatchewan. Its runway was likely turf or gravel. The airport's operations were primarily focused on general aviation, supporting local private pilots for recreational and transportation purposes. It would have also been used for agricultural aviation (crop spraying), a vital service in the region. Its significance was purely local, providing a basic air link for a remote community before road networks became as advanced as they are today. It never handled scheduled commercial traffic or had any military role. The identifier 'CA-1067' is not an official ICAO code but a proprietary identifier used by third-party aviation databases to track unregistered or historical airfields.

There are no known plans, proposals, or prospects for reopening the Willow Bunch Airport. Given the land has been returned to private agricultural use, the small population of the community it served, and the significant financial and regulatory hurdles to re-establish an aerodrome, the likelihood of it ever reopening is extremely low to non-existent.