Willis Ranch Airport

The closure was due to abandonment and economic reasons. As a private agricultural airstrip, its operational costs likely outweighed its benefits for the ranch owner over time. The land was subsequently reclaimed for its primary purpose: farming. This is a common fate for small, private agricultural airfields in the region.

The site is currently used as active farmland. Satellite imagery shows that the southern half of the former runway has been completely plowed over and integrated into a cultivated field. The northern portion remains as a faint dirt track, but there are no remaining airport facilities, hangars, or markings. The land has been fully converted back to agricultural use.

Willis Ranch Airport was a small, private airfield with no major historical significance beyond its local utility. Its primary function was to support the agricultural operations of the surrounding Willis Ranch in California's Central Valley. Operations would have consisted mainly of agricultural aviation (crop dusting, seeding) and general aviation for the ranch's owners. The earliest known record of the airport is its appearance on the 1965 Sectional Chart, which described it as a private field with a single 2,600-foot unpaved runway. The identifier 'US-10646' is a non-official code used by some third-party databases and not a formal ICAO or FAA identifier.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Willis Ranch Airport. Given that the land has been reclaimed for agriculture for several decades and the runway is partially obliterated, reopening is considered extremely unlikely.