The airport was completed by the United States Army Air Forces on March 31, 1943,[3] and was known as Lomita Flight Strip.

[1] In the year ending January 31, 2016, the airport had 119,034 aircraft operations, average 325 per day: 99% general aviation, <1% military and <1% air taxi.

[4] The helipad for a neighboring hospital, the Torrance Memorial Medical Center, is at the north-west corner of the airfield.

Their entire production, assembly, and testing facilities are on the southeast side of the airfield and are the largest buildings at the field.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency