Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned HOE by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

The facility was assigned to United States Army Air Forces Fourth Air Force.

During the Cold War the facility was known as Lockbourne Air Force Base and was assigned to the USAF Strategic Air Command.

This latter facility was initially assigned to the Air Training Command and a massive military construction (MILCON) program began to prepare the airfield as a training base for the new B-47 Stratojet medium bomber aircraft.

The facility is assigned to the following Los Angeles Unified School District schools:

The facility was assigned to the AAF Gulf Coast Training Center, with the Army Air Force Pilot School (Primary) activated (phase 1 pilot training), in which flight cadets were taught basic flight using two-seater training aircraft.

The facility was assigned to the United States Air Force's Air Training Command.

When a sectional center facility's area crosses state lines, that facility is assigned separate three-digit prefixes for the states that it serves.

The airfield was officially opened on 19 January 1942, and the facility was assigned to the Third Air Force.

The facility at 1160 kHz frequency was assigned the WCFO call sign and adopted the business talk radio format in June 2006.