 The airport also hosts the official weather station for Albury-Wodonga.Although the site had been laid out as an aerodrome since the late 1930s, it was not until 1963 that construction to allow regular passenger flights to Sydney and Melbourne was completed, with the first flights arriving on 16 December that year.The airport was officially opened by the Minister for National Development David Fairbairn on 13 September 1964.