[1] Originally named Majors Field, it is home to L3Harris Mission Integration Division (MID), which performs aircraft modification.

Majors Airport, named for Lieutenant Truett Majors, the first Hunt County native to perish in World War II, began operations on June 26, 1942, as a training center for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).

Greenville was chosen as a site for the USAAF basic flight-training center due to the efforts of the influential politician Sam Rayburn.

Majors Army Airfield (AAF) was assigned initially to the Gulf Coast Training Center (later Central Flying Command).

[1] In the year ending 23 June 2016, the airport had 19,135 aircraft operations, averaging 52 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military.