Carrot River Airport

The closure was due to a combination of economic and operational factors. The airport was no longer certified by Transport Canada, experienced minimal to no air traffic, and the Town of Carrot River determined it was not financially viable to continue maintaining or upgrading the facility. The land, which was leased from the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), was returned to the federal government upon the town council's decision to decommission the airport.

The airport is permanently closed and has been fully decommissioned. The land has reverted to agricultural use, managed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (the successor to the PFRA), and is likely integrated into the surrounding community pasture. Recent satellite imagery shows the faint outline of the former runway, but the area is now indistinguishable from the adjacent farmland and is used for grazing or cultivation.

Carrot River Airport served as a local aerodrome for the town of Carrot River and the surrounding Rural Municipality of Moose Range in Saskatchewan. Its primary role was supporting general aviation for private pilots and agricultural aviation (crop dusting), a critical service in this farming-intensive region. It likely also handled occasional charter flights and may have been used for air ambulance or medical evacuation flights in the past, providing a vital link for the remote community before services were centralized at larger, better-equipped regional airports like Nipawin Airport (CYBU).

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The formal decommissioning, the return of the land to federal control for agricultural purposes, and the proximity of the fully-serviced Nipawin Airport (approximately 40 km away) make any future reopening extremely unlikely.