Kenderes Airfield

The airfield's closure was primarily due to economic reasons following the end of the socialist era in Hungary in 1989-1990. The airfield was an agricultural facility serving large, state-run collective farms. With the political and economic transition, these large farms were broken up and privatized, eliminating the centralized demand for large-scale agricultural aviation services like crop dusting and spraying. The operational model became economically unsustainable, leading to the closure of Kenderes and hundreds of similar airfields across the country.

The airfield is completely decommissioned and no longer exists as an aviation facility. Satellite imagery and ground-level information confirm that the site has been fully reclaimed for agricultural use. The former grass runway and any support structures have been removed, and the land has been plowed over and integrated into the surrounding farm fields. There are no visible remnants of its past as an airfield.

Kenderes Airfield was a typical agricultural airfield ('mezőgazdasági repülőtér') built and operated during the Hungarian People's Republic. Its primary and sole function was to support the region's large-scale socialist agriculture. Operations involved aircraft, such as the Antonov An-2 and Zlín Z-37 Čmelák, performing aerial application tasks like crop dusting, fertilization, and pest control for the surrounding collective farms. It was part of a vast, nationwide network of utilitarian airfields that were crucial to the agricultural output of the era. Its significance lies in being a representative example of this now-defunct sector of Hungarian aviation history. It had no known military or significant passenger transport role.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Kenderes Airfield. The economic basis for its original existence is gone, and there is no modern demand for an airfield at this specific location. The land has been successfully repurposed for agriculture, making any potential revival extremely unlikely and cost-prohibitive.