Pines Airpark

Suburban development and economic pressures. As the Temecula Valley and surrounding areas like Winchester experienced a major population boom starting in the 1980s, the value of the land for residential housing far exceeded its value as a small private airport. The airpark was sold to developers and re-zoned for housing.

The former airport site has been completely and irreversibly redeveloped. It is now a dense single-family residential neighborhood. There are no visible traces of the former runway, hangars, or any other aviation infrastructure. The entire area was re-graded and built over with homes and streets. Some local street names, such as 'Pinewood Street', may be a subtle homage to the old airpark.

Pines Airpark was a small, privately-owned general aviation airfield that was active from at least the early 1950s. It primarily served local pilots for recreational flying. The facility consisted of a single unpaved, east-west runway (Runway 8/26) approximately 2,600 feet in length. It was a characteristic example of the numerous small, rural airstrips that were common throughout Southern California before the region's massive suburban expansion. The name 'Pines' was likely a reference to the nearby community of Homeland, which was historically known as 'The Pines'. The provided ICAO code 'US-10860' is a non-standard identifier from a third-party database; the airport did not have an official ICAO or FAA identifier for much of its existence and, being a small private field, never had an IATA code.

There are zero plans or prospects for reopening Pines Airpark. The land is fully occupied by a residential housing development, making any return to aviation use physically and legally impossible.