[1] The airport is mostly used for general aviation, and is served by one commercial airline, Southern Airways Express, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

[3] Jakson Regional Airport covers an area of 807 acres (327 ha) at an elevation of 434 feet (132 m) above mean sea level.

[1] For the 12-month period ending August 30, 2018, the airport had 16,220 aircraft operations, an average of 44 per day: 81% general aviation, 10% air taxi and 9% military.

[1] The airport was established by and originally named in memory of Kenneth Douglas McKellar (1869–1957), a longtime U.S. senator from Tennessee.

He helped to convince the Civil Works Administration to acquire the property and construct the initial runways and buildings during the winter of 1933–1934.

[5] In April 1942 the airport was leased by the United States Army Air Forces and became a wartime flight training school.

The physical facilities of McKellar Field included administrative buildings and quarters for officers and enlisted men, encircling a central location.

In the 1970s, the airport name was changed to McKellar–Sipes Regional Airport to honor Major Robert Ray "Buster" Sipes, a United States Air Force test pilot from Jackson, who was killed in 1969 when his RF-101 Voodoo jet fighter crashed after takeoff from RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England.