Thessalon Municipal Airport

While no single official reason was published, the closure was almost certainly due to economic factors. Small municipal airports like Thessalon are expensive for small communities to maintain, insure, and operate. The likely reasons include a combination of low air traffic volume, high operational costs (maintenance, insurance, liability), and a lack of municipal funding. The town likely decided that the expense of keeping the aerodrome certified and maintained outweighed its benefits to the community, leading to its de-registration and the land being repurposed.

The airport is permanently closed and abandoned. Satellite imagery of the coordinates (46.316031, -83.533244) clearly shows the faint outline of the former runway, which is now heavily overgrown with grass and vegetation. The land appears to be privately owned. A private driveway or farm track now bisects the former runway. There are no remaining airport structures such as hangars, terminals, or fueling facilities on the site. The land is currently used for rural residential and possibly light agricultural purposes.

Thessalon Municipal Airport was a small general aviation aerodrome. Its primary role was to serve the local community and surrounding area. When active, it featured a single turf/gravel runway, approximately 3,000 feet long. Operations would have consisted mainly of:
- **Private and Recreational Flying:** Local pilots and aircraft owners using small, single-engine aircraft (e.g., Cessnas, Pipers).
- **Tourism:** Providing air access for tourists, hunters, and fishermen visiting the North Shore region of Lake Huron.
- **Utility and Government Use:** Potentially used on an occasional basis by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for forest fire surveillance or as a remote staging point.
It was never a hub for scheduled commercial passenger service and had no significant military role. Its importance was purely local, providing a basic aviation link for a small northern Ontario town.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the Thessalon Municipal Airport. The land is in private hands, and the former runway is in a complete state of disrepair. Re-establishing an airport on this site would require a massive capital investment to re-acquire the land, reconstruct the runway and facilities to meet modern Transport Canada standards, and secure funding for ongoing operations. Given the economic reasons for its original closure and the small size of the community, a reopening is considered economically unfeasible and highly improbable.