[3] The city operated the base as the Blytheville Municipal Airport, with most of the dorms converted to serve as a veterans housing area, and industrial park.

[4] A new administration building was constructed on the site of the WW2 era control tower in 1950, at a cost of $50k, with half of the funding provided by the federal government.

[5] The city of Blytheville applied to the Civil Aeronautics Authority multiple times to make the airport a stop on the Chicago and Southern Air Lines main route.

[6] As early as 1946, the Blytheville Chamber of Commerce began lobbying efforts with Rep. Ezekiel Gathing to reopen the facility as a permanent military installation.

In 1962, during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two B-52G bombers at the base were readied to participate in Operation Chrome Dome to strike the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons if necessary.

[2] Arkansas International Airport was developed after the base was closed and the land was transferred from the federal government to the cities of Blytheville and Gosnell for joint control.

In 2020, the National Cold War Center was created by local citizens to take the former base's SAC Alert Facility and turn it into a museum.

The complex consists of commercial, community, recreation, educational, garage, industrial, office, residential, and warehousing facilities, which makes it very open for many uses.