What was the Caribbean's first airport?

Question

What was the Caribbean's first airport?

Answer 1

That will be difficult to answer.  Reason being, many islands had grassy runways designated as landing/flying zones **long** before they may have had a formal airport terminal building built on that same site.

Hmmm In terms of British Isles... I know a lot of their infrastructure came from the British-US deal. Bases for destroyers.  E.g. the US was granted the right to place bases in British Territories around the Caribbean and Bermuda in exchange for Britain to get sea based battle destroyer ships.

I think Bermuda could be first in the British Caribbean?? I know for a number of years they had a British/American joint base there from World War II.

So did Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad and I think the Bahamas.

If that wasn't their genesis the next could have been surrounding that way Britain governed in the Caribbean. At first Jamaica was incharge of the British islands (and Belize) in the northern Caribbean. Antigua was incharge of the Leeward Islands, Barbados the Windward Islands, and Trinidad was on it's own. Guyana was at first governed from Barbados then became on their own too. So those hubs might have been the first spots.

In Barbados the first plane to touchdown there was the early 1930's. The Dutch Airlines in 1939 started to make it a regular stop.... And then a real terminal was built there in the 1950s. A big shed was used prior to the 1950's. The Bahamas and Bermuda were more strategic being in North America during WWII so I think they probably could have gotten airports before Barbados did. Since the plane came from the Dutch-Caribbean to Barbados I feel the Dutch and French might possibly have had the British Caribbean beat.