Starting in 1946 National Airlines (NA) Lockheed Lodestars and Convair 340s landed at Marianna.

The airport has two 4,900-foot (1,500 m) by 100-foot (30 m) intersecting hard surface runways with a pavement strength of 56,500 pounds single wheel load.

The airport continues to see military aircraft, with a third of the airport's operations normally being transient military training flights, mostly Army helicopters from Fort Novosel and Navy helicopters from Naval Air Station Whiting Field.

[1] In the year ending March 9, 2009, the airport had 28,016 aircraft operations, average 76 per day: 67% general aviation and 33% military.

30 aircraft were then based at the airport: 66.7% single-engine, 20% multi-engine, 6.7% helicopter and 6.7% glider.