History
The airport was formerly named Waterloo Regional Airport but it changed its name in March 2004 after Northwest Airlines announced that it would run daily flights to Detroit.
The Kitchener-Waterloo Municipal Airport began construction in 1929 on the Heinrich farm on Lexington Road, what is now Hillside Park. The Towns of Kitchener-Waterloo and Ontario Equitable Life and Accident Insurance Company acquired the lands to build a land and water airport facility. Completed in 1930, the airfield was mainly used for flying instruction school. Gilles Air Service began to operate from the airfield from 1930 to 1932 and was succeeded by Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club from 1932 to 1951. During World War II civil aviation ceased at the airfield and was occupied by the Empire Air Training Scheme. By the end of the War there was a push for a larger and more appropriate place for private and commercial aviation in the area. Established by the Waterloo-Wellington Airport Commission in 1948 and the airport located east to Breslau, Ontario area and was completed in 1950. The old airport was then sold in 1951 to A.B. Caya and re-developed into a mixed residential and commercial area. Two baseball diamonds occupy the former airport lands. The new K-W Municipal Airport became a general aviation facility in 1969. From 1951 to 1973 the Waterloo-Wellington Flying Club ran the airport and then sold to Waterloo Region and City of Guelph as publicly owned airport and renamed Waterloo Regional Airport. Today it operates 24 hours and seven days a week.
The former name, Waterloo Regional Airport, is now used by an airport in Waterloo, Iowa.
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