$257,000 were raised in early 1928 to fund the airport in 33 1/2 hours, which is the time it took Charles Lindbergh to fly from New York City to Paris.

[3] A site was chosen based on proximity to an air route from Chicago to New York, and land was purchased in the spring of 1928.

However, President Franklin D Roosevelt allocated $216,077 in Works Progress Administration funds for upgrades to the airport in 1936.

[3] Ultimately, neighboring developments prevented the airport from expanding its runways to meet the needs of increasingly larger commercial aircraft.

[3][4] In 1966, Executive Aviation signed a fifteen-year lease and invested $250,000 in a new main hangar, 20 T-hangars, and a fuel facility.

[7] In April 2007, a FedEx Boeing 727 landed at the airport to be decommissioned and provided to Owens Community College for ground-based training.

Air America Aerial Ads, LLC, operates from the field; In the year ending July 29, 2021, the airport had 90,700 aircraft operations, average 248 per day: 78% general aviation, 22% air taxi, and <1% military.

[11] As of July 2021, there were 44 aircraft based at the airport: 36 single-engine and 6 multi-engine airplanes, 1 jet, and 1 glider.