The Camden (Field) Auxiliary Air Base was established in 1942 as an emergency airstrip.

[1] On May 24, 2011, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, at the one-year anniversary celebratory rally marking the election of her coalition government to power, announced that the airstrip would be upgraded to a domestic airport to serve the Trinidad-Tobago airbridge.

The strip was found to be attractive as an airport, and a six-phase development was recommended using a public/private partnership.

[1] Throughout 2014, Trinidad and Tobago rescinded and reinstated the project to upgrade the airport on two occasions for unknown reasons.

University of Trinidad and Tobago UTT operates an aviation campus at the airport.