[2] The paved runway opened about 1965, and the airport has since had occasional commuter airline flights— e.g. in 1979, Princeton Airways was operating fifteen scheduled passenger flights to Newark each weekday with Britten-Norman Islander STOL capable aircraft.

Princeton Airways also flew scheduled passenger service from the airport with the GAF Nomad STOL capable turboprop.

Principals of the company are members of the Nierenberg family, previously the fixed-base operator at Kupper Airport for eighteen years.

[1] In the year ending October 23, 2020, the airport had 39,421 aircraft operations, average 108 per day: 88% general aviation and 13% air taxi.

[1] In 1991, Avril Haines, who is currently the Director of National Intelligence under President Biden's administration, took up lessons at Princeton Flying School where she met her future husband, David Davighi.