Mitchell Municipal Airport (IATA: MHE, ICAO: KMHE, FAA LID: MHE) is three miles north of Mitchell, in Davison County, South Dakota.

[2] Opened in November 1937, the facility was rebuilt in 1943 by the United States Army Air Forces as a Second Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator heavy bomber training airfield field known as Mitchell Army Airfield.

Upon completion of training and subsequent notification for overseas deployment, the 700th Bomb Squadron flew to Lincoln Army Air Field for last minute aircraft modifications before taking the Southern Atlantic crossing route to Tibenham, England.

Braniff stopped at Mitchell 1952–59; North Central arrived in 1959 and successor Republic left in 1982.

[1] In the year ending August 10, 2011 the airport had 19,450 aircraft operations, average 53 per day: 95% general aviation, 4% air taxi, and 1% military.