[3] Colorado Air and Space Port is a small general aviation airport, although increased demand has warranted several expansion programs in recent years.

Currently, the airport serves as the base of a few flying schools, flight clubs, maintenance services, and air rescue training facilities.

[1] For the 12-month ending December 31, 2019, the airport had 75,647 aircraft operations, an average of 207 per day: 98.5% general aviation, <1% air taxi and 1.4% military.

[10] Spaceport designation would allow a facility offering suborbital tourism, travel, and cargo transport from one point to another on Earth.

Instead, space planes — an emerging technology — will use regular runways and jet engines to take off and land, switching to rocket power above 50,000 feet.

"[10] Media sources in 2012 suggested that the Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser spaceplane might be used for suborbital spaceflights and that Colorado Air and Space Port might prove to be the preferred location, over Spaceport America in New Mexico.

[11] News reports indicated that the Colorado Air and Space Port proposal was gaining traction with political interests at the state and federal levels as well as with industry participants.