Clinton, CA 🇨🇦 Closed Airport
ICAO
CA-0868
IATA
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Elevation
915 ft
Region
CA-ON
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Location: 43.56901° N, -81.59623° E
Continent: NA
Type: Closed Airport
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Approximately between 2006 and 2010. The airport was confirmed as active and listed in the Canada Flight Supplement in 2005. By the early 2010s, it was no longer listed in aviation publications, and satellite imagery from that period shows the runway becoming indistinct and the land being prepared for agricultural use.
The exact reason for the closure is not publicly documented. However, as a small, privately owned aerodrome, the closure was most likely due to factors common to such airfields. These typically include the owner's retirement or death, the sale of the property for other purposes (in this case, agriculture), or the increasing financial burden of taxes, insurance, and maintenance required to keep a private airstrip operational. There is no evidence to suggest it was closed due to a specific accident or for military conversion.
The airport is permanently closed and has been fully returned to agricultural land. Current satellite imagery shows the site as an actively cultivated farm field, with crops planted over the area of the former runway. While the faint outline of the airstrip can sometimes be discerned from the air due to soil compaction and drainage differences, no trace of airport infrastructure, such as hangars, buildings, or markings, remains on the site.
Tricks Airport was a private general aviation aerodrome serving the local community. Its operations were small-scale and primarily for recreational flying. It featured a single turf runway, designated 13/31, with dimensions of approximately 2,600 feet by 100 feet. The airport was used by its owner and likely other local pilots with permission, accommodating small, single-engine aircraft capable of operating from a grass strip. Its significance was purely local, contributing to the general aviation infrastructure of Huron County for several decades. It should not be confused with the nearby, and much larger, former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Station Clinton, which was a major radar and communications training base during and after World War II.
There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Tricks Airport. The land is privately owned and has been fully integrated into a working farm. The cost and regulatory challenges of re-establishing an airport on productive agricultural land are prohibitive. For all practical purposes, the prospect of this airport ever reopening is zero.