Estación Méndez Airport

Economic reasons and industrial development. The land, located on the growing outskirts of Ciudad Juárez and adjacent to the US border, became highly valuable for industrial purposes. It was redeveloped to create a large industrial park to host maquiladoras (manufacturing plants), which was a more profitable use of the real estate than a small, private airfield.

The site has been completely and permanently redeveloped into a major industrial park. The former runways and airport grounds are now occupied by numerous large manufacturing and logistics facilities. The most prominent structure, the Electrolux Group's cooking products factory, sits directly on top of the former runway intersection. Other companies in the immediate vicinity include Lexmark and The Toro Company.

Estación Méndez was a small, private general aviation airfield. It featured two unpaved (dirt or gravel) runways in an 'X' configuration and had very basic facilities with no evidence of a formal terminal or large hangars. It primarily served private pilots, local businesses, and possibly agricultural operations. It did not handle any scheduled commercial passenger or cargo traffic. Its significance was entirely local, providing air access before the area was absorbed by the city's industrial expansion. The identifier 'MX-1636' is not an official ICAO code (which begin with 'MM' for Mexico) but rather an internal catalog number used by non-governmental airport databases.

None. There are no plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The land has been irreversibly repurposed for high-value industrial use, and all aviation infrastructure has been demolished and built over. Air traffic for the region is handled by the much larger and fully equipped Abraham González International Airport (IATA: CJS, ICAO: MMCS).