[1] Owned by the Delaware River and Bay Authority, the airport is four nautical miles (7 km) northwest of the central business district of Wildwood.

Following the end of World War II, Naval Air Station Wildwood was deemed excess to U.S. Navy requirements.

The airport was the headquarters and homebase for United States Overseas Airlines (USOA), a supplemental air carrier that operated in Cape May from 1950 through 1964 and at one point employed over 500 people.

[13] Cape May County Airport covers an area of 996 acres (403 ha) at an elevation of 21 feet (6 m) above mean sea level.

[20] On August 27, 1993, F-16A 82-0990 (call sign MAPLE 91) of the 134th FS, 158th FW, Vermont Air National Guard, USAF was written off when it crash landed and skidded off the runway at the Cape May County Airport.

The flight was to-include air-to-air refuelling followed by Dissimilar Air Combat Tactics (DACT) with F-15 Eagles and landing at the unit's Alert Detachment Base.

The MP turned west toward land and accomplished a Unified Fuel Control (UFC) airstart which was successful and gave him idle thrust at 20,000 ft.

The MP concentrated on flying a Simulated Flame Out Approach (SFO) into Cape May County Airport, NJ.

The aircraft continued straight ahead, proceeded across a road, and came to rest in an abandoned landfill approximately 950 feet from the departure end of the runway.