The airport, originally Carr Field, was built in 1941 by the United States Army Air Forces as a pilot training airfield.

It now provides daily commercial service for the City of San Angelo, its adjacent metropolitan area, and nearby Goodfellow Air Force Base, with flights to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

The terminal has had the baggage claim area expanded to ease congestion, two new jetways were added, and more room was made available for the TSA as new X-ray machines were to be installed as required for every commercial airport.

Much of the newly constructed services include a general aviation terminal, maintenance and fuel facilities, hangars, T-hangars, and tie downs.

[7] By 1951 Continental Convair 240s flew the same basic San Antonio - Denver multi-stop route but no longer stopped at Big Spring or Las Vegas.

[11] By 1961 TTa Convair 240s were flying San Angelo - Brownwood, TX - Fort Worth - Dallas Love Field - Texarkana - Hot Springs - Little Rock - Pine Bluff - Memphis while its DC-3s flew nonstop to Dallas Love Field, San Antonio and Midland/Odessa and direct to El Paso and Shreveport.

[12] In 1966 all TTa flights into San Angelo were Convair 600s with nonstop service to Austin, Abilene, Brownwood and Midland/Odessa and one-stop to Dallas Love Field, Houston Hobby Airport and El Paso.

Rio Airways, an independent commuter airline, then began service to San Angelo and in 1983 was flying 50-seat de Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7s and 19-seat Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners, eight nonstops a day to Dallas/Fort Worth.

[17] By 1985 Rio had become a Delta Connection airline and was flying 19-seat Beechcraft 1900Cs and de Havilland Dash 7s to San Angelo with seven flights a day from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

A number of companies offer taxi and shuttle service throughout San Angelo and the surrounding Tom Green County Area.