Boissevain Aerodrome

The closure was primarily due to economic reasons and declining use. Like many small, rural aerodromes in Canada, the costs associated with maintenance, insurance, and operations likely became unsustainable for the local municipality or flying club due to insufficient general aviation traffic. There is no evidence to suggest it was closed due to a specific accident, military conversion, or environmental issue.

The site of the former aerodrome has been fully returned to agricultural use. Satellite imagery of the coordinates (49.25, -100.066667) shows the land is now a cultivated farm field. The faint, ghostly outline of the former east-west runway is still slightly visible from the air, but all aviation infrastructure, including any hangars, markers, or buildings, has been removed.

Boissevain Aerodrome, which used the Transport Canada Location Identifier (TC LID) CJM2, was a post-war general aviation airfield. Its primary function was to support the local community of Boissevain and the surrounding agricultural region. Operations included private and recreational flying, a base for the local flying club, and agricultural aviation such as crop dusting. The aerodrome featured a single turf runway (08/26) that was approximately 2,600 feet long and 100 feet wide. It is important to note that while Boissevain hosted the No. 1 Wireless School as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) during World War II, that was a ground-based training facility, and this particular civil aerodrome was not one of the primary BCATP airfields.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the Boissevain Aerodrome. The land has been completely repurposed for agriculture, and the economic factors that led to its closure likely persist. Regional aviation needs are adequately served by larger, better-equipped airports in the region, such as the Brandon Municipal Airport (CYBR), making a reopening both financially unfeasible and unnecessary.