Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport has been serving the aviation community throughout southwestern PA since September 1929.
Established by Pittsburgh Aviation Industries Corp. the airport opened its 230-acre site in Penn Township, as the Pittsburgh-Butler Airport on September 27 and 28, 1929. The airport was constructed six miles south of Butler on what were originally the Nixon and Dodds farms.
Small airports already existed in the county at the time. Prior to Butler becoming more or less a precursor to the Pittsburgh International Airport, there were other landing sites. Hopefield Airport near the now Butler Farm Show Airport shared the limelight along with Alameda Airport, across from the Deshon Veterans Administration Hospital. Some lesser landing strips existed near what is now Saxony Farms in Saxonburg.
