Valley Vista Airport

The specific reason for closure is not officially documented, which is common for small, private airfields. However, the closure was most likely due to personal or economic reasons related to the owner/operator. Reasons for similar private airfield closures often include the owner's retirement or death, the sale of the land, or the increasing cost and liability of maintaining an airfield.

The site is currently used for agriculture. Satellite imagery clearly shows the land has been converted into a crop field. The faint, linear outline of the former northwest/southeast runway is still visible from the air as a feature in the farmland, but all airport infrastructure like markers or hangars has been removed.

Valley Vista Airport was a small, private general aviation airfield. Its primary operator in the 1970s was listed as Earl Darby. The airport featured a single turf runway, approximately 2,600 feet long, designated Runway 14/32. Its operations were limited to small, private aircraft like Cessnas and Pipers. Its historical significance is local, having served as a private landing strip for its owner and potentially other local pilots for several decades, from at least 1968 until the mid-2000s.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Valley Vista Airport. The land has been fully repurposed for agricultural use, and the airport has been officially de-listed from aviation charts for over a decade, making a return to aviation service extremely unlikely.