Hooks Airport started out on the North side of the airport property which is located in North Harris County. Mr. Charles G. Hooks first built a runway there simply for his own personal use. His hobby eventually expanded into a business, so he decided to build the runways and a main terminal.

Mr. Hooks’ airport was officially open to the public in the mid 1960’s. George Bush Sr. was a congressman at the time, and he actually attended the grand opening of the airport.

The airport was originally named the Houston Northwest Airport. Shortly after it opened, Mr. Hooks’ son, David Wayne, was killed in a devastating plane crash on FM 2920. It was then that Mr. Hooks renamed the airport David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport in honor of his beloved son.

Mr. Hooks and his wife, Irma, ran the airport successfully for almost 20 years. Then in the early 1980’s, Mrs. Hooks was killed in a fatal car crash. The Hooks’ daughter, Katherine, took over for her mother and helped her father operate and manage the airport. Katherine passed away in the late 1980’s.

When Mr. Hooks got re-married, he decided to retire and sold the airport to the Gill family in 1989. Jag Gill has been the owner and operator of the airport and the main FBO ever since.