Manyberries Airport

The closure was due to abandonment and lack of use, which are common economic reasons for small, private airstrips. As an unregistered field, its existence was dependent on the private owner's need and ability to maintain it. When that need or ability ceased, the field was left to revert to nature. There is no evidence of closure due to military conversion, a specific accident, or regulatory action.

The site is completely decommissioned and has been reclaimed for agricultural use, likely as a pasture or hayfield. Current satellite imagery shows the faint, overgrown outlines of the two former runways are still visible from the air but are entirely unusable for any aviation purposes. There are no remaining airport buildings, hangars, or infrastructure on the site.

The airport, known as Manyberries Airport in various non-official aviation databases, was a small, private aerodrome. Its ICAO code, CA-0832, is a non-official identifier, indicating it was never a publicly registered airport with Transport Canada. Its primary function was almost certainly for general aviation, serving local ranchers or farmers for private transportation and potentially agricultural operations like crop dusting. It consisted of two unpaved, intersecting runways. The airport does not appear to have been associated with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) during WWII or to have ever handled scheduled commercial flights.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. Given the extremely small population of the hamlet of Manyberries, the significant cost of restoring the airfield, and the proximity of the full-service Medicine Hat Regional Airport (CYXH) approximately 100 km to the north, there is no economic or practical justification for its reactivation.