Lewvan (Farr Strip) Airport

The closure was due to the cessation of private use, not a specific public event. As a private airstrip named 'Farr Strip,' it was likely owned and operated by a local landowner for personal or agricultural aviation. The most common reasons for the closure of such facilities include the owner no longer flying, the high cost of maintenance, the sale of the property to a non-aviator, or the owner passing away. There is no evidence of military conversion, a major accident, or broad economic factors leading to its closure.

Based on current satellite imagery of the coordinates (49.985001, -104.114998), the site has been fully reclaimed for agricultural use. A very faint outline of the former northwest/southeast-oriented grass runway is still visible within a larger cultivated farm field. The land is not maintained for aviation and is actively being farmed. There are no remaining airport facilities like hangars or markers visible.

Lewvan (Farr Strip) Airport held no major national or regional historical significance. Its importance was entirely local and private. It served as a utility airstrip for its owners, likely the Farr family, and potentially for associated agricultural operations, which are vital in the rural prairie landscape of Saskatchewan. Operations would have consisted of light, single-engine aircraft for personal transportation and possibly agricultural aircraft (crop dusters) for spraying nearby fields. It represents one of thousands of small, private grass strips that have supported general aviation and agriculture across rural Canada.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. Since it was a private facility on private land, any initiative to reopen would have to come from the current landowner and would require significant investment to re-establish the runway and get it re-registered with Transport Canada. Given the lack of any apparent commercial or public need for an airport at this specific rural location, the prospect of it ever being used for aviation again is negligible.