Cincinnati West Airport began in 1939 when Orville and Alvin Jackson plowed an airstrip through a hayfield owned by Woiden Radcliffe.

[2] The Windecker Eagle, the first composite airplane to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration, was designed and built at the airport in the late 1970s.

An adjacent property was developed as a residential subdivision, ending his plans to extend the runway to 3,500 feet (1,100 m).

[8] That August, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College purchased the airport from McKenna Air Inc. to support its federally approved, two-year aviation maintenance technologies program.

[13][14] Cincinnati West Airport covers an area of 27 acres (11 ha) at an elevation of 583.8 feet (177.9 m) above mean sea level.