History
First plane, Brubaker Aerial Survey Plane, lands on the grassy field at the airport October 12, 1929. It is the first plane that is known to have landed at the site. [Coos History Museum] The North Bend/Coos Bay Airport opened in 1932. The U.S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, North Bend was started in 1936 and commissioned on May 10, 1943. The airport was transferred to the City of North Bend in 1947 as military surplus property. The first airline flights were West Coast DC-3s in 1947; successor Hughes Airwest pulled out in 1979. The City of North Bend transferred management of the airport to the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay in July 1999. The Coos County Airport District was formed by a general election on December 4, 2002, with ownership and management of the airport transferred to the district in December 2003. A HondaJet ran off the runway into Coos Bay on April 7, 2025 with 5 on board. All passengers survived. ==Airline and destinations==