[1] Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport houses the Civil Air Patrol's Squadron 805, Lehigh Valley Aviation Services, a fixed-base operator,[2] Vertivue Air Charters, a private airplane and helicopter charter service, and FlyGateway Aviation Institute, formerly Gateway Aviation, which is a multi-location flight school affiliated with and utilized by Liberty University and FlyGateway's career pilot programs.

On July 31, 2008, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airport identifier briefly changed from 1N9 to JVU.

In mid-December 1942, during World War II, Allentown, Pennsylvania, was the site for the production of the TBY-2 Sea Wolf torpedo bomber used by U.S. Navy.

Consolidated Vultee became Allentown's second-largest industry, handling over $100 million in World War II contracts.

In September 1943, Consolidated Vultee received an order to build 1,100 TBY-2 Sea Wolf torpedo bombers for the Navy.

[4][5] With the end World War II in 1945, aircraft production at the facility ceased, and Plant 5C was returned to Mack Trucks.

The following year, in 1948, the Pennsylvania Air National Guard signed a lease to take over the aviation facilities for flight training in support of the 148th Fighter Squadron at Reading Airport.

[6] Due to budgetary cutbacks the Reserve Training Center at Reading was inactivated on May 1, 1950, and reassigned to New Castle County Airport in Delaware.

Throughout the 1950s, several plans were made to redevelop the land, but none of them were adopted because they failed to meet the aviation clause in the airport's 1947 transfer agreement with the City of Allentown.

In the 1980s, several popular hot air balloon events were held at the airport, and it hosted the city's annual Fourth of July fireworks display for several years.