The airport opened in April 1943 named Johns Island Army Airfield.

Initially it was an auxiliary to Columbia Army Air Base as an unmanned emergency landing airfield.

On 25 August 1945, the airfield was turned over to local authorities which converted it into a civil airport.

[1] In the year ending December 11, 2019 the airport had 31,000 aircraft operations, an average of 85 per day.

[1] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency