Rancho el Poker Southwest Airport

The closure was due to economic reasons and a change in the operational needs of its private owner, 'Rancho El Poker, S.A. de C.V.'. As a private facility supporting a large agricultural operation, the cost of maintaining the airstrip likely outweighed its benefits. The ranch may have shifted to using third-party aerial services or found ground transportation more efficient, rendering its private airstrip obsolete. The gradual reclaiming of the land by agriculture, rather than a sudden event, supports this conclusion.

The airport is permanently closed and no longer exists as an aviation facility. The land where the runway was located has been fully reclaimed for agricultural purposes. Current satellite imagery shows the area is now part of a cultivated field, integrated with the surrounding farmland and likely crossed by irrigation channels.

The airport held no national or major regional significance. Its importance was purely local and private, serving as a functional airstrip for 'Rancho El Poker'. Operations were primarily for general and agricultural aviation. This would have included private flights for the ranch's owners and management in small propeller aircraft, and potentially serving as a base for crop-dusting aircraft (ag-aviation) to service the vast surrounding farmlands in the Mexicali Valley. The facility consisted of a single, unpaved dirt runway (approximately 2,950 ft / 900 m), suitable for small, single-engine aircraft like Cessnas, Pipers, or specialized agricultural planes.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Rancho el Poker Southwest Airport. The physical infrastructure has been completely removed and the land converted to profitable agricultural use. Re-establishing an airport on the site would be cost-prohibitive and logistically complex, with no apparent demand or strategic reason for doing so.