Domestic fixed wing charter flights and scheduled flights are carried out by SkyTrans, Hinterland Aviation, Cape Air Transport, Horizon Airways, and Torres Strait Air.

The only International services are carried out by Torres Strait Air, with charter flights to Papua New Guinea.

[2] The airfield consisted of two intersecting runways, with revetments for aircraft parking.

After Darwin, Horn Island was the second-most bombed area of Australia by the Japanese in World War II.

[3] The Horn Island Veterans Memorial in front of the airport commemorates the American and Australian servicemen who fought and died in the defence of Horn Island and the Torres Strait during World War II.