History

Owned and operated by the Corporation of the Township of Armstrong, the Earlton Airport was first developed as an emergency field along the Trans-Canada Airway in 1937. In 1952, the airport's runway was lengthened to 6000 feet to accommodate fighter aircraft in the Air Defence Command. In past years, Canadian Pacific and Trans-Canada Airlines made scheduled stops at Earlton on their way to Toronto and Montreal.

When these stops ended in 1973, NorOntair, a provincially operated airline, began offering scheduled passenger service from Earlton until March 1996, when they terminated operations in order that private sector airlines could assume their routes. During the years 1975-2003, scheduled air passenger service was provided by several airline passenger operators. Currently there is no scheduled passenger service available from this airport. However, there is a strong charter market that is being served on an on-call basis by several charter airline services.

In 1994, as a result of an initiative of the Timiskaming Air Service Committee, the Airport was given a new name to better identify it as a regional air transportation facility. Therefore, at the 1994 Timiskaming Regional Air Show, Timiskaming MP Ben Serré officially renamed the airport to the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport.