Indian Head Airport

The closure was primarily due to economic factors. As a small municipal airport, the financial burden of maintaining the aging runway, lighting, and other infrastructure became unsustainable for the Town of Indian Head. The low volume of general aviation traffic could not justify the significant operational and capital costs required to keep the airport certified and safe, leading to its eventual abandonment.

The site is now an abandoned airfield. The classic triangular runway pattern of a BCATP field is still clearly visible from satellite imagery, but the asphalt surfaces are severely degraded, cracked, and overgrown with weeds, making them completely unusable for aviation. The land has been repurposed for agriculture; the areas between the runways are actively farmed, and the old runways are often used to store large hay bales or farm equipment. All original airport buildings, such as hangars and terminals, have been removed.

The airport's main historical importance is its origin as a World War II airfield. It was constructed as a Relief Landing Field (R1) for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). Specifically, it supported flight training operations for No. 34 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS), which was based at RCAF Station Assiniboia. Student pilots in de Havilland Tiger Moth and Fairchild Cornell aircraft would use this field for practicing circuits, landings, and takeoffs. After the war, the airfield was transferred to civilian control and became the Indian Head Airport. For decades, it served the regional community by supporting general aviation, private pilots, agricultural spraying operations (crop dusting), and occasional air ambulance or charter flights.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the Indian Head Airport. The cost to restore the runways and install modern infrastructure would be prohibitively expensive. Given the lack of significant demand for air services in the immediate area and the fact that the land is now privately owned and used for agriculture, a revival of the airport is considered extremely unlikely.