Ste. Rose du Lac Airport

Primarily economic reasons. Like many small municipal aerodromes in rural Canada, it faced significant financial challenges. High operating costs, maintenance expenses for the turf runway, insurance liability, and declining general aviation traffic made it financially unsustainable for the local municipality to continue operations.

The airport is permanently closed and has been fully decommissioned. The land at coordinates 51.040798, -99.494784 has been converted back to agricultural use and is now farmland. Current satellite imagery shows the faint, plowed-over outline of the former east-west runway, but no airport infrastructure such as hangars, lighting, or markings remain.

The airport, officially identified by Transport Canada as CKU3 (not CA-1059, which is a non-standard identifier), was a small but important general aviation facility for the community. It featured a single turf runway (09/27) with a length of 2,600 feet. Its primary operations included supporting local private pilots, facilitating agricultural aviation such as crop dusting (a vital service in the prairie region), and potentially serving as a landing strip for charter flights or air ambulance services supporting the Ste. Rose General Hospital.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The economic factors that led to its closure remain, and the land has been completely repurposed. Re-establishing an airport on the site would require significant investment to reacquire the land and rebuild all infrastructure from scratch, which is considered highly improbable for a community of its size.