(This is a new gallery as of 2/26/17 - it is no longer shared with the Miami Municipal Airport/Amelia Earhart Field Gallery because it was causing confusion)

This airport was originally called All-American Airport and it was on the east side of the Seaboard Airline Railroad tracks that separated it from the smaller Miami Municipal Airport that was west of the tracks to LeJeune Road (NW 42nd Avenue in Dade, E. 8th Avenue in Hialeah). In the late 1930's it was called Miami International Master Field because Miami's future international airport was going to built there because Pan American Field was too small for larger airliner type aircraft. Unfortunately World War II broke out and massive amounts of military commands and members moved into the area for the duration of the war. The Navy bought the airport and it became part of Naval Air Station Miami and was known as NAS Miami South Field #1. The Navy retained ownership after World War II ended and until the Navy left NAS Miami in February 1952. The U. S. Marine Corps took over and the main air station (known as Mainside) became Marine Corps Air Station Miami and I believe the Marine Corps Reserve operated from what the locals called "Masters Field". If the Navy had not purchased the airport our international airport would have been at the site of Miami International Master Airport but by the time World War II ended the Port Authority figured out a way to expand the 36th Street Airport to the west and combining it with the Army Air Corps Air Field to the south gave them the approximate acreage that Miami International Master Airport had.

After the Marine Corps relocated their commands to other Marine Corps Air Stations in the late 1950's the property was declared surplus and the U. S. Government Services Administration auctioned off the northern portion of Master's Field above NW 119th Street up to NW 123rd Street and the western portion of Master's Field west of NW 32nd Avenue to the Seaboard Airline Railroad tracks. The remaining portion from NW 27th Avenue to NW 32nd Avenue from the Biscayne Canal north to NW 119th Street was transferred to the state of Florida so that the new Dade County Junior College could be built. It is now called Miami-Dade College North Campus and pathetically the College does not have a historical plaque on campus to educate their students that the college is sitting on former airport/military air station land that was generously given to the state by the federal government so that the college could be built. No one in the current administration of Miami-Dade College was instrumental in getting the land for the first campus of Dade County Junior College.