Premier Showfreight Limited is based at Airport House, once the terminal building for Croydon Airport, the first purpose-built airport in the world. It opened in May 1928 and served as London's first international airport. As one of the early centres of international air transport in its pioneering days, it soon became the main base for Imperial Airways and the place from which so many great flights originated.

At Croydon Airport, aviation history was made time and time again: as when Amy Johnson flew 10,000 miles from Croydon to Darwin in a de Havilland Gypsy Moth bi-plane during May 1930. Another landmark was the arrival at Croydon of Charles Lindbergh after his historic solo flight across the Atlantic in his plane "The Spirit of St Louis".

By 1945, airliners had been developed which required long, hard runways for their operation.  This meant that Croydon’s hey day as London’s main airport was over.  The European airlines moved to Heathrow or Northolt during 1946/47.  The last international flight to leave Croydon Airport was a de havilland Heron, flown by Captain Last of Morton Air Services to Rotterdam.  A similar aircraft is mounted on the forecourt of Airport House and can be seen from the Purley Way.