San Juan Airport

The closure was primarily due to economic reasons, obsolescence, and urban expansion. As the Dominican Republic's national highway system improved, the necessity for a small, local airfield for passenger and cargo transport diminished significantly. Air traffic became centralized at larger, more modern airports, making small airfields like this one economically unviable to maintain. The growing city of San Juan de la Maguana eventually expanded onto the airport's land.

The airport site has been completely redeveloped and is now fully integrated into the urban landscape of San Juan de la Maguana. The former runway's exact path has been converted into a major city street, Avenida Anacaona. The land that once comprised the airfield is now densely populated with residential housing, commercial properties, public schools, sports facilities (including the nearby Estadio Hermanos Suárez baseball stadium), and a significant portion is occupied by the regional campus of the state university, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). The original airport is physically gone, with only the straight, wide path of the main avenue serving as a reminder of its past.

Known as the Aeródromo de San Juan de la Maguana, the airport was a vital link for the San Juan province, a major agricultural center known as the 'Granero del Sur' (Breadbasket of the South). Its operations were crucial for connecting this relatively remote region with the capital, Santo Domingo, and other parts of the country. The airport primarily handled general aviation, including private aircraft, air taxi services, government and military transport, and agricultural aviation such as crop dusting. It was part of a network of domestic airfields established to facilitate national transport and government administration before the modern road network was fully developed.

There are zero prospects for reopening this airport. The land has been permanently and irreversibly repurposed for urban development. Restoring aviation operations at this location is physically impossible due to the extensive construction of buildings, roads, and infrastructure on the former airfield. Any plans for a new airport to serve the San Juan province would require acquiring new land and constructing an entirely new facility at a different location, for which there are currently no known official plans.