Aron-les-Ecottays Ultralight Airfield

The specific reason is not publicly documented, which is typical for small, privately owned airfields. The most probable cause is the cessation of operations by the private owner for personal reasons (e.g., retirement, sale of land). The land has since reverted to agricultural use, indicating the closure was due to a change in land use rather than external factors like accidents, regulatory action, or military conversion.

The site has been fully converted back to agricultural land. The former runway area is now a field, used for crops or pasture, and is indistinguishable from the surrounding farmland to a ground-level observer. High-resolution satellite imagery reveals the faint, ghostly outline of the former runway, but all dedicated aviation infrastructure has been removed. The location is no longer an active or recognizable airfield.

Aron-les-Ecottays was a private ultralight airfield, known in France as a 'base ULM'. Its significance was entirely local, serving as a recreational facility for the owner and potentially other permitted ultralight pilots in the Mayenne department. It consisted of a single grass runway, approximately 300 meters long with a rough 08/26 orientation. The airfield's operations were exclusively for private, recreational flying of ultralight aircraft and it never handled commercial, cargo, or scheduled passenger traffic.

There are no known plans or public discussions regarding the reopening of this airfield. Given that it was a private facility and the land has been repurposed for agriculture, the prospects for its re-establishment as an aviation site are considered non-existent.