The U.S. Navy operated the airport during World War II under a joint-use agreement as Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Beverly.

Beverly Regional Airport covers an area of 470 acres (190 ha) at an elevation of 107 feet (33 m) above mean sea level.

[1] For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2022, the airport had 83,897 aircraft operations, an average of 230 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi, and <1% military.

[7] On May 9, 1989, Alfred James Hunter III, a postal worker who had shot and killed his ex-wife earlier that evening, stole an airplane (a Cessna 152 two-seat trainer) at gunpoint from a flight instructor.

During the flight, which stretched from Danvers to Duxbury, Hunter fired his gun at the ground below, buzzed the South Postal Annex in Boston several times, and briefly touched down at Logan Airport before taking off again.

[10] On August 27, 2010, Michael Costales, age 30, a flight instructor at Beverly Regional Airport, was struck and killed by an aircraft's moving propeller.