El Setenta y Siete Airport

The airport was a private airstrip, and its closure was not due to a single major event like an accident or military conversion. The most likely reason is a gradual cessation of use due to economic or logistical factors. This is common for private airfields when they are no longer required by the owner, become too costly to maintain, or when the property (likely a ranch, given the name 'El Setenta y Siete' or 'The 77') changes hands or purpose.

The site is defunct as an airport. The physical location still shows the faint outline of a north-south unpaved runway on satellite imagery. However, the strip is completely unmaintained, overgrown with vegetation, and unusable for any aviation purposes. The surrounding land is actively and intensely used for agriculture, characterized by large, circular fields under pivot irrigation.

El Setenta y Siete Airport held no major national or commercial significance. Its importance was entirely local and private. It functioned as a private-use dirt airstrip, primarily serving the agricultural and logistical needs of the ranch or farm on which it was located. Operations would have consisted of small, single-engine aircraft for general aviation (transporting owners, staff, or supplies) and potentially agricultural aviation, such as crop dusting, which is common in the region.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening El Setenta y Siete Airport. As a small, privately-owned field that has been defunct for many years, any revival would require significant private investment and a renewed purpose. The primary aviation needs for the Nuevo Casas Grandes region are served by the Nuevo Casas Grandes National Airport (IATA: NCG, ICAO: MMCS), making the reopening of this small, remote strip highly unlikely.