Seletar Airport was built in 1929 and completed by the British just before the Second World War, when it served as a military base. On 10 February 1930, Seletar Airport received its first commercial flight, a Dutch East Indies Airways plane carrying eight passengers from Jakarta. This made it both a civilian airport and military airbase. 

In 1968, the airport was handed over to the then Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) to manage. In 1984, DCA became a statutory board known as the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, which continued to manage the airport until the formation of Changi Airport Group on 16 June 2009 and corporatisation of Singapore Changi Airport on 1 July 2009. 

In 2012, the extension of the Seletar Airport runway by 250m to 1.84km is completed, together with the construction of a new fire station and new control tower on the east side of the runway. 

Spanning 160 hectares in the north eastern part of Singapore, Seletar Airport, owned by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and managed by Changi Airport Group, is Singapore's business and general aviation civil airport. It caters to business and general aviation users such as international aircraft charters, private flights, training flights and aircraft coming for maintenance, repair and overhaul. Seletar Airport also supports scheduled commercial flights. With its new passenger terminal building and supporting infrastructure, it has a handling capacity of over 700,000 passenger movements per annum.