[2] The airport is located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) south of the central business district of Muskegon, Michigan.

[5] It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.

[9] At this same time, Capital was also operating Douglas DC-4 propliner service on an eastbound routing of Chicago O'Hare - Muskegon - Lansing - Detroit - Cleveland - Pittsburgh - Baltimore - Washington D.C. National Airport and a westbound routing of Washington D.C National Airport - Baltimore - Pittsburgh - Cleveland - Detroit - Grand Rapids - Muskegon - Chicago O'Hare.

[9] North Central Airlines was serving Muskegon by 1962 with Douglas DC-3 aircraft operated on nonstop flights to Milwaukee and Green Bay, WI in addition to direct, no change plane flights to Detroit Willow Run Airport via stops in Grand Rapids, MI and Lansing.

[10] The airport even had international service of a sort at this time as North Central was operating a daily southbound DC-3 flight from Port Arthur, Ontario/Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) in Canada with stops being made in Houghton, MI, Iron Mountain, MI and Green Bay en route to Muskegon with this flight then continuing on to Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit.

[12][13] United Douglas DC-6B service at this time in 1963 included a westbound flight operating a routing of Detroit Willow Run - Flint - Saginaw - Muskegon - Chicago O'Hare - Moline, IL - Cedar Rapids - Des Moines - Omaha and an eastbound flight operating a routing of Cedar Rapids - Chicago O'Hare - Muskegon - Saginaw - Flint - Detroit Willow Run - Akron, OH - Youngstown, OH - Pittsburgh.

[16] Another airline operating jet service into the airport in 1975 was North Central operating McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 service with one daily flight operated on an eastbound routing of Chicago O'Hare Airport - Milwaukee - Muskegon - Lansing - Detroit - Cleveland although most of the service operated by North Central from the airport at this time was flown with Convair 580 turboprops with four daily direct one stop flights to Chicago O'Hare via Milwaukee, three daily direct one stop flights to Detroit via Lansing and two daily direct flights to Cleveland via stops in Lansing and Detroit.

[21] The June 1, 1999 OAG lists four nonstop flights to Chicago O'Hare operated every weekday by Great Lakes Airlines flying as United Express via a code sharing agreement on behalf of United with Beechcraft 1900 and Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia commuter propjets as well as five nonstop flights to Detroit every weekday operated by Mesaba Airlines with Saab 340 turboprops as Northwest Airlink code sharing service on behalf of Northwest Airlines and also three nonstop flights every weekday to Milwaukee operated by Skyway Airlines with Beechcraft 1900s flying Midwest Express Connection service on behalf of Midwest Express.

[23][24] North Central Airlines subsequently merged with Southern Airways to form Republic Airlines which in 1979 was continuing to serve the airport with McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jets as well as Douglas DC-9-10 jets and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50 jets in addition to Convair 580 turboprops with direct, no change of plane DC-9-30 service from Atlanta, direct one stop DC-9 and Convair 580 service from Chicago O'Hare via Milwaukee, and direct one stop DC-9 and Convair 580 service from Detroit via either Grand Rapids, MI or Lansing.

Denver Air Connection announced it would operate 24 weekly departures to and from Chicago O'Hare (ORD) with Embraer ERJ-145 regional jet aircraft.

Muskegon County Airport covers an area of 1,200 acres (486 ha) at an elevation of 629 feet (192 m) above mean sea level.

[2] For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021 the airport had 23,000 aircraft operations, an average of 63 per day: 84% general aviation, 14% scheduled commercial, 1% military, and <1% air taxi.