Coutts Airport

The airport was a small, private aerodrome. Its closure was not linked to a specific incident like an accident or military conversion. The most probable reasons are economic factors and a change in land use. It is common for such private strips to close when the owner ceases aviation activities, sells the land, or finds it more economically viable to use the land for agriculture, which appears to be the case here.

The site of the former airport has been fully converted back into active farmland. High-resolution satellite imagery shows the land is cultivated as part of a larger agricultural field. While a very faint outline of the compacted soil from the former runway can be discerned under specific conditions, there are no remaining signs of airport infrastructure such as hangars, buildings, or runway markers.

Coutts Airport (CA-0665) was a simple, private grass/turf airstrip. Its historical significance was limited to the local community, serving as a basic facility for private recreational flying and potentially for agricultural operations like crop dusting. It consisted of a single north-south runway capable of handling light, single-engine aircraft. It was not a public airport, had no commercial services, and was not an Airport of Entry (AOE) for customs; cross-border flights in the area would use the nearby Coutts/Ross International Airport (CEP4).

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening this airport. The land is privately owned and integrated into agricultural operations. Given the existence of the nearby Coutts/Ross International Airport, which serves the general aviation needs of the region, there is no practical or economic driver to re-establish this former private strip.