Bader Field was opened in 1910 and was authorized to provide passenger service in 1911. It was the first U.S. municipal airport with facilities for both seaplanes and land-based airplanes.
The first known usage of the term "air-port" appeared in a newspaper article in 1919, in reference to Bader Field. The term was coined by Robert Woodhouse and referred to the "Flying Limousines", a seaplane passenger service between Atlantic City and New York.
Bader Field was the founding location of the Bader Field was opened in 1910 and was authorized to provide passenger service in 1911. It was the first U.S. municipal airport with facilities for both seaplanes and land-based airplanes.
Bader Field was the founding location of the Civil Air Patrol in 1941.
Scheduled commercial airline service at the airport ended in 1990, when Allegheny Airlines moved to the larger Atlantic City International Airport. The control tower was removed in the late 1990s and some of the former airport property was used to build a minor-league baseball stadium in 1941.
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader was born in 1910. He flew for the RAF and must have had 9 lives. He lost his legs after a dare flying in a plane event. After a long recuperation he went back to flying and flew in many battles in WWII. He crashed and became a most famous German prisoner of war. He escaped with 2 other inmates by tying sheets together but was caught and was re-interred until the end of the war. After the war he lost his wife to cancer, remarried and lived until 1982 when he died from heart failure.