Las Clavellinas Airport

The closure was almost certainly due to economic reasons. Las Clavellinas was a small, local airfield primarily serving an agricultural purpose. The economic collapse during the 'Special Period' resulted in extreme fuel shortages and a lack of funding for state-run enterprises, including the national agricultural aviation service (Empresa Nacional de Servicios Aéreos - ENSA). This led to the grounding of much of the fleet and the abandonment of non-essential, small-scale airfields across the country.

The airport is completely abandoned and derelict. The single asphalt runway is severely deteriorated, cracked, and extensively overgrown with grass and shrubs, rendering it unusable for any aircraft. Satellite imagery shows that parts of the former runway are now used as an informal dirt road or track for local agricultural vehicles to access surrounding fields. There are no remaining airport buildings, hangars, or facilities at the site.

Las Clavellinas Airport served as a local agricultural airstrip (aeródromo agrícola). Its primary function was to support the state-run farms in the Pinar del Río province, one of Cuba's most important agricultural regions, particularly for tobacco. Operations would have consisted of crop dusting, seeding, and fertilizing, likely using Soviet-era utility aircraft such as the Antonov An-2. It was part of a vast network of similar small airfields that were crucial to Cuba's collectivized agricultural model before the 1990s. It did not handle commercial passenger flights or have any known military significance.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Las Clavellinas Airport. The cost of restoring the runway and building new infrastructure would be substantial. Furthermore, with the decline of large-scale state agricultural aviation and the consolidation of air services into larger, more economically viable airports, there is no practical or economic incentive to reactivate such a small, remote airfield. Its reopening is considered highly improbable.