| 1903 - | The Wright Brothers make their famous flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
| 1910 - | Local LaPorte resident, Elmer Burlingame, designs monoplane. |
| 1920 - | A JN-4D Curtis by-plane, owned by Frank Kemp, lands in LaPorte. Frank Kemp becomes first citizen of LaPorte County to own a plane. |
| 1924 - | Flying field receives recognition in LaPorte County three miles east of current airport. Owner of the field, C. Nelson, presents flying circus, balloon ascension, military band, military air show, wing-walker handcuffed to the plane and an aviation artist who performed on a rope ladder. |