Brant, Commander of the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center at Randolph Field, visited and reported that the situation at Midland was favorable.

The sole purpose of the Bombardier College was to train young men to use the Norden bombsight.

Midland reached a peak base population of more than 4,000 and graduated a total of 6,627 bombardier officers by the conclusion of the training mission on January 1, 1946.

All services (ticketing, baggage claim and concessions) were inside the building, and a single departure lounge opened onto the apron.

The first airplane built and flown in Texas, the "Pliska" (an approximate copy of the Wright Flyer II) was donated to the airport and is displayed in the terminal over the baggage-claim area.

The company relocated its headquarters[12] to the Midland International Airport from where it had planned to offer commercial space flights.

[14] On April 22, 2024, Delta Airlines returned to Midland with three daily flights to Austin Bergstrom International Airport.

Midland International Air and Space Port covers 1,600 acres (650 ha) at an elevation of 2,871 feet (875 m).

It has four asphalt runways:[2][15] For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2021, the airport had 58,010 aircraft operations, average 159 per day: 29% military, 39% general aviation, 10% air taxi and 22% airline.