In 1940, local leaders, aware of the Federal government's airport building program, formed a committee to represent the community.

Due to the impossibility of expanding Clark Field for a modern airport, Moultrie and Colquitt County then took an option on a tract of land northeast of the city.

When the committee members learned the Army planned on establishing additional training bases in the Southeast, they traveled to Maxwell AAF, Alabama to secure an Air Corps airfield on the site.

Moody AFB in Valdosta made an agreement with the City of Moultrie to use the airfield for an Air Force auxiliary field.

Between 2000 and 2005, Spence served as an auxiliary field for the undergraduate pilot training program that was a tenant activity at Moody AFB, being used for take off and landing operations by their Raytheon T-6 Texan II turbo-prop trainers.

With removal of T-6 Texan II aircraft from Moody AFB, military flight operations are now limited to the occasional HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter or HC-130P Hercules.