[8] The sole remaining military activity at the airport is Coast Guard Air Station Miami, operating from federal property not deeded to the county.

DayJet provided on-demand jet air charter services to 44 airports in 5 states; it filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in 2008.

In 1929, he transferred the land to the City of Miami, which erected a World War I surplus hangar from Key West.

In 1928, Curtiss made a separate donation of land two miles south of Opa-locka for Miami's first Municipal Airport.

After Curtiss died in 1930, his estate transferred a parcel of land north of the golf course and the Florida Aviation Camp to the city of Miami.

The installation was extremely active during World War II and saw significant military construction on the main base as well as several additional auxiliary airfields in the general area.

In one instance, TAC civil engineering personnel rehabilitated the aging petroleum, oil and lubricants (POL) fuel farm and distribution infrastructure originally constructed by the Navy in the 1940s, bringing the facility to fully operational status in just 3½ days.

[13] However, the crisis passed through diplomatic means and the airfield was never required to serve as a strike installation against Soviet and Cuban forces.

CGAS Miami continues to operate on site with EADS HC-144 Ocean Sentry fixed-wing aircraft and MH-65 Dolphin helicopters.

Subsequently, he wrote, "because they'd already successfully landed a shipment there, for more than a year Miami's Opa Locka Airport was my father's drug-trafficking destination.

[18][19] In the year ending May 24, 2017 the airport had 147,638 operations, average 404 per day: 87% general aviation, 6% military, 6% air taxi, and <1% airline.

[2] In 2023, public charter airline JSX announced it would move all of its Miami operations into the Opa-Locka Executive Airport.