Tetacombiate Airport

Abandonment due to economic obsolescence and lack of use. Originally a military auxiliary field, its post-war utility as a private or emergency airstrip diminished over time, leading to a lack of maintenance and eventual closure. It was not closed due to a specific event, accident, or formal conversion.

The site is completely abandoned and derelict. The faint outlines of the two unpaved, intersecting runways are still visible on satellite imagery but are heavily overgrown with desert scrub and are unusable. There are no remaining buildings or infrastructure on the site, and it serves no current agricultural, industrial, or military purpose.

The airport's distinct X-shaped runway pattern is characteristic of a World War II-era auxiliary airfield. It was likely constructed in the early 1940s as part of the Mexican-American Joint Defense Commission's efforts to patrol the Pacific coast and Gulf of California for enemy (primarily Japanese) submarines. It would have served as a satellite or emergency landing field for patrol aircraft based at the main air facility in Guaymas. After WWII, it appears to have been used sporadically as a private or general aviation dirt strip, as indicated by its unofficial 'MX-2364' designator, before falling into disuse.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Tetacombiate Airport. Its remote location, lack of infrastructure, and proximity to the modern and fully-equipped Guaymas International Airport (IATA: GYM, ICAO: MMGM) make its redevelopment as an aviation facility economically and logistically unviable.