[2] The airport is based inside the south end of the Fort Cavazos Military Reservation (known as West Fort Hood), six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) southwest of the central business district of Killeen, Texas,[2] in unincorporated Bell County.

[6] The airport has one runway designated 15/33 with a PEM (Porous European Mix) surface measuring 9,997 by 200 feet (3,047 x 61 m).

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2021, the airport had 84,630 aircraft operations, an average of 232 per day: 87% military, 12% scheduled commercial and 1% general aviation.

In 2018, the facility continued completion of the master plan, bid and awarded a $4.9 million passenger boarding bridge replacement project, design and bid a $4.7 million security surveillance project, completed design of a $750,000 quick-turn.

On November 27, 2017, Delta Airlines announced that service would no longer continue to Killeen, and the route ended on 15 January, 2018.