Under the effects of mechanical and environmental loading, airfield pavement is prone to appear the distresses of cracking, joints damage and vertical moves of pavement panels, which results in frequent maintenance. Aiming at controlling propagation of cracks and achieving jointless function, this study attempts to apply engineered cementitious composites (ECC) as an airfield pavement material due to its high ductility and intrinsic self-healing capacity. Damage in ECC could be healed by secondary hydration, which leads to low cost in long-lasting service life. In this paper, it investigated the mechanical properties of ECC and its self-healing behavior as well as the cracking potential at early age of ECC. The result shows that ECC has high strain capacity of 3.67% under tension and deflection capacity of 6.33 mm under flexural load. The flexural and compressive strength is 12.68 MPa and 43.9 MPa, respectively, which meets requirements of airfield pavement. Under restrained shrinkage, ECC is expected to have a low tend in fracture failure. After self-healing, the tensile performance of ECC including stiffness, tensile strain capacity and tensile strength recovers largely. The water permeability coefficient of pre-damaged ECC decreases gradually to that of a virgin one. It can be concluded that ECC material is feasible in jointless airfield pavement.