Port Allen Airport, formerly known as Burns Field, was used in the 1920s as a landing facility by the U.S. Signal Corps, which was the aviation section of the Army at that time.  A Signal Corps reservation adjoining the airstrip housed personnel operating a communicatin station on the airfield.

The first passenger air service to Kauai was inaugurated by Inter-Island Airways on November 12, 1929, on a twice weekly schedule to Port Allen Airport.

Runways at Port Allen were set-up and extended in 1930 using prison labor.

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