Beausejour Airport

Relocation and replacement. The closure was not due to an accident or economic failure in the traditional sense, but rather a planned obsolescence. A group of local pilots and aviation enthusiasts formed the AV-RAN Air Flying Club to build a new, superior, and officially registered airport (CJB2) with a paved runway and better facilities. The construction of this new airport made the original, more primitive airstrip redundant.

The site has been fully reclaimed for agricultural use. High-resolution satellite imagery of the coordinates shows that the land is now a cultivated farm field. The faint, linear outline of the former northwest-southeast runway is still visible from the air as a slight discoloration in the soil, but all physical infrastructure such as hangars, markers, or a distinct runway surface has been removed. The land is privately owned and used for farming.

This site was the original airstrip for the town of Beausejour, Manitoba. It was a basic facility, likely consisting of a single unpaved grass or gravel runway. It primarily served the local general aviation community for recreational flying in small, private aircraft (e.g., Cessnas, Pipers) and may have also supported agricultural operations like crop dusting. Its significance was purely local, providing the area with its first dedicated aviation access before it was replaced by a modern facility. The identifier 'CA-0040' is not an official Transport Canada or ICAO code and likely originates from a non-governmental aviation database; the airstrip may have been officially unregistered or operated under a different designation.

There are no plans or prospects for reopening this airport. The aviation needs of Beausejour and the surrounding region are well-served by the active and well-maintained Beausejour/AV-RAN Airport (CJB2). As the land from the original airport has been successfully repurposed for agriculture for several decades, any future aviation development would be focused on expanding or improving the existing CJB2 facility, not re-establishing the old one.