Under the Authority’s leadership, the Airport opens its first air traffic control tower. Since then, the ATCT has directed 1,344,284 operations including 1,096,197 take offs and landings.

The Boca Raton Airport Authority is enacted by the state legislature to control the Airport, cultivating it into the premier general aviation facility and valued community partner that it is today.

The control of the land is transferred to the state of Florida and 1,000 acres are released for educational use, eventually becoming Florida Atlantic University. For the next three decades, the airport passes through the stewardship of five different government agencies as it evolves to better serve the local flying community.

The tide turns for the Boca Raton Airport when it is transferred from the United States of America to the Town of Boca Raton with a provision that it be used for the benefit of the public.

The Army Air Corp. decides to transfer operations to Keesler Army Airfield in Mississippi due to declining numbers of American and allied troops utilizing the facility after the end of the war. Unfortunately, two devastating hurricanes hit Boca Raton before the move could be made, leaving the base uninhabitable and eventually condemned.