The airport was previously named
Craven County Regional Airport,
Simmons-Nott Airport, and
New Bern Regional Airport. Simmons-Nott came from North Carolina Senator
Furnifold McLendel Simmons who was present at the 1931 dedication of the new terminal. During an air performance for the dedication,
United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Joel Nott was killed. Senator Simmons required that 1stLt Nott's named be added to the airport to pay homage for the fallen military officer. On August 8, 1941, the Marine Corps leased the airport to become an outlying field of
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and named it OLF Camp Mitchell. In the beginning of 1942, the
Army Air Forces used the field for anti-submarine patrols. The field was later closed for seven months during 1942 while two hard surface runways and a runway lighting system were installed. The first Marine aviation units began to arrive at the field in February 1943. Among the units to train at the field during the war was Marine Aircraft Group 34 and fighter squadrons VMF-324 and
VMF-511. In January 1944, plans were announced to expand the field. However, these plans were abandoned because the Marine Corps acquired surplus Army fields. In 2011, Coast Carolina Regional Airport hosted three Honor Flights for World War II veterans. Craven Regional Airport has previously been serviced by
Midway Airlines,
American Eagle,
Piedmont Airlines, Charter Express,
United Airlines,
Delta Air Lines, Wheeler Airline, Henson Airlines and
National Airlines. In May 2024,
Breeze Airways started operations at the airport. In early February 2025 the airport announced that
American Eagle would be using dual class
aircraft for service. Today, scheduled commercial flights tend to consist of four arrivals and four departures per day. ==Terminal==