The United States Navy also used the airport as an Outlying Landing Field (OLF) to Naval Air Station Olathe, Kansas where aviators were trained for carrier operations.

[1] As a result of the Cold War military buildup, Grandview Airport was leased by the United States Air Force on 1 January 1952 and title was transferred to the Federal Government in November 1952.

No military personnel were assigned prior to 1954 while major construction took place on runways, taxiways, aprons and support facilities.

Shortly afterwards, in March 1954 the first operational flying unit, the 326th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (FIS), was activated and assigned to the group.

Major transportation companies include Kansas City Southern railway and Schneider National, Inc., a truck line.

Kansas City Southern's main line runs from the intermodal center at Richards-Gebaur all the way to a deep-sea Pacific port at Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico.

Many of the previous Air Defense Command structures remain intact, including the SAGE block-house, the control tower, and some hangars.