Rancho Chávez Airstrip

No official reason for the closure has been published. As a private airfield, the closure was most likely due to practical and economic reasons related to the ranch it served. Common reasons for such closures include a change in property ownership to someone without an aircraft or need for an airstrip, the original owner ceasing aviation activities, or the maintenance costs becoming prohibitive. The closure appears to be a gradual abandonment rather than the result of a specific incident, accident, or government mandate.

The airstrip is currently abandoned and completely unusable for aircraft. The physical location of the dirt runway is still visible in satellite imagery, but it is heavily overgrown with desert vegetation, eroded, and crisscrossed by numerous vehicle tracks. No aviation infrastructure remains, and the site has effectively reverted to being undeveloped rural land as part of the surrounding ranch.

Rancho Chávez Airstrip was a private-use airfield whose sole purpose was to serve the 'Rancho Chávez' and its vicinity in a remote part of the Mulegé municipality. Its operations were limited to general aviation, handling small, private aircraft (such as Cessna or Piper models) used by the ranch's owners, their guests for tourism or hunting, and for transporting personnel and supplies. Its significance was entirely local, representing a vital transportation link to a remote property, which was a common feature for many large ranches and isolated fishing camps throughout the Baja California peninsula.

There are no known or published plans to reopen the Rancho Chávez Airstrip. Restoring the airstrip to a safe and operational condition would require a significant private investment from the current landowner to clear, grade, and compact the runway surface. Given the lack of any apparent commercial or private incentive, the prospect of it being reopened for aviation purposes is considered extremely low to non-existent.