Colonia la Puerta Airport

Economic and operational changes by its private owner. The airport was a private agricultural airstrip owned by 'Agroindustrias la Puerta S.P.R. de R.L.', a rural production company. The closure was not due to a major event but rather a strategic business decision. Likely factors include the rising cost of maintaining a private airstrip and aircraft, a shift to more modern or cost-effective agricultural methods (such as ground-based application or aerial services contracted from a larger airport), or the owner prioritizing the land's value for direct crop cultivation over its use as an airstrip.

The site has been fully reclaimed and converted back to agricultural land. The area where the ~3,000-foot dirt runway once existed is now indistinguishable from the surrounding cultivated fields, complete with crops and irrigation channels. All airport-related infrastructure has been removed, and there are no physical traces of its past as an airfield visible on the ground.

The airport's significance was purely local and private, serving as a functional agricultural airstrip ('agropista'). It was never a public or commercial airport and did not handle passenger or general cargo traffic. Its sole purpose was to support the agricultural operations of its owner in the fertile Mexicali Valley. Operations would have exclusively involved agricultural aircraft (e.g., crop dusters like Air Tractor or Piper Pawnee models) for aerial application of pesticides, fertilizers, and seeds on the surrounding fields.

Virtually non-existent. The land has been repurposed for its primary and more profitable use: farming. Re-establishing an airport would require the owner to halt agricultural production on the plot, secure new permits, and completely rebuild the runway and any support facilities from scratch. Given the economic rationale for its closure, such a reversal is highly improbable.