[1] The airport is in the southwestern corner of Fullerton on Commonwealth Avenue, northeast of the junction of the Santa Ana (I-5) and Riverside (SR 91) Freeways.

[2] Fullerton Municipal Airport can trace its origins to 1913 when barnstormers and crop dusters used the former pig farm as a makeshift landing strip.

William and Robert Dowling, with the aid of H. A. Krause and the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce, had petitioned the council for permission to turn the by then-abandoned sewer farm into a landing field.

The California Highway Patrol, Anaheim Police Department, Orange County Fire Authority, and Mercy Air maintain helicopters on the airfield.

"[4] Fullerton Municipal Airport covers 86 acres (350,000 m2) and has one runway and one heliport: Its control tower handles an average of 262 operations per day.