Hodgeville Saskatchewan Community Airport

Many towns across the prairies once had small community airports but the numbers are thinning. Included in the tally is the one in Hodgeville Saskatchewan, the remains of which include a road sign, a concrete foundation and one standing structure. The latter was presumably the office and control centre (the terminal). That’s all there is here, but it served the purpose.

When the airport was built or closed is unknown at the moment. Information is spotty but we suspect the published, but elusive Hodgeville History Book (Prairie, Pioneers, Progress) might offer answers. We’ve yet to find a research copy (so one free to use) but we’ll continue to look. As general rule, many of these airports were established in the post World War Two personal aircraft boom, so that might be the case here.

The airport had a simple grass runway and when viewed from Google Earth the faint outline of it can be seen in a field extending south. The sign out front shows that the airport’s elevation is 2310′.

Airports like this were bases for small private planes and/or agricultural service firms (“crop dusters”). As the cost of aircraft ownership has increased over the years, many of these these facilities have closed.

This is a repost of an article from 2014 that was lost to a system crash and presented as new.

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Date of adventure: May, 2014.
Location: Hodgeville, Saskatchewan.

Hodgeville Community Airport, elevation 2310′.

There’s only a concrete foundation…

…And this small support building.

The grass runway is located behind.