Walker Hall, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, home of the College of Aerospace Doctrine Research and Education, is also named after the general.

This was during a round of base closings and consolidations as the Defense Department struggled to pay the expenses of the Vietnam War within the budgetary limits set by Congress.

[2] A Lockheed JetStar, once owned by Elvis Presley, and sold at auction in May 2017, had spent over 30 years sitting on a tarmac at the airport.

On April 2, 2011, a new Gulfstream G650 crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport during a test flight that was being conducted by the manufacturer of this large, twin engine business jet, killing all four aboard.

Continental Airlines provided Roswell's first commercial air service beginning on May 14, 1940 and flying a route from Denver to El Paso stopping at Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Las Vegas NM, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Roswell, Hobbs, and Carlsbad.

[9] In 1948, Pioneer Air Lines began service with DC-3s on a route from Amarillo to El Paso stopping at Clovis, Roswell, and Las Cruces.

[12] By late 1963, Continental had grown into a major airline and transferred all Roswell service to Trans-Texas Airways (TTa).

TTa was renamed Texas International Airlines (TI) in 1969 and continued to serve Roswell with DC-9s and Convair 600s, the latter providing service to Amarillo, Lubbock, and El Paso.

In the late 1970's, TI began retiring the Convair 600 turboprops, and by spring 1979, the carrier had only one flight from Roswell to Albuquerque continuing to Dallas/Ft.

The series of commuter airlines providing service since 1979 are as follows: Air Midwest was designated as the primary replacement for TI in all of Southeastern New Mexico.

Service to Roswell began on March 1, 1979, with 17-seat Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners to Albuquerque, Lubbock, and later to Midland/Odessa with passengers now having to change planes and airlines to travel to hub cities such as Dallas/Ft.

At first Air Midwest competed with Zia Airlines operating Handley Page Jetstreams and Crown Airlines flying Piper Navajos to Albuquerque, now the primary route from Roswell, offering up to thirteen roundtrip flights per day but both of these carriers shut down in 1980.

There was also a fourth carrier, Permian Airways, flying Piper Navajos to Amarillo and El Paso, but it too ended service in 1980.

In early 1984, Mesa Airlines began serving Roswell from Albuquerque and Lubbock operating 14-seat Beechcraft 99s in competition with Air Midwest and passenger traffic nearly doubled that year.

[18] Air Midwest ended their Roswell service in early 1986, and Trans-Colorado Airlines immediately began flights to Albuquerque on Swearingen Metros.

Lone Star later changed their name to Aspen Mountain Air but ended their Roswell service in 1998.

During the latter half of 2017, the DFW flights were upgraded again with 76-seat Embraer 175 and Canadair CRJ-900 regional jets but were reverted back to CRJ-700's by early 2018.

Eastern New Mexico University has a campus there, and aircraft repair and refurbishing companies including AerSale have airliners stored onsite.

In 2002 a series of charter flights operated by Trans World Airlines (TWA) with Boeing 767-300 aircraft were flown into Roswell in order to transport trainees for the Federal Air Marshal service.