[1] Scheduled passenger flights on Great Lakes Airlines to Denver and Dodge City ended in August, 2006.

The January 1938 directory[2] says Ponca City's airport was sod, a half-mile square; in November 1938 a 3,600-foot (1,100 m) concrete runway opened.

The United States Army Air Forces took over the facility in the summer of 1941 and used it as part of the British Flying Training School Program.

[5] Metro Airlines served from 1981 to 1986 with one-stop de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters to Oklahoma City.

Service switched from Tulsa to Dallas/Fort Worth by the late 1980s and Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners replaced the Navajos.

[7] Big Sky Airlines took over serving Ponca City in 1999 with flights to Dallas/Fort Worth and to Denver with one stop at Enid, Oklahoma.

[1] In the year ending August 26, 2008 the airport had 61,500 aircraft operations, average 168 per day: 93% general aviation and 7% military.