Today several flying schools operate at the airport and it is used frequently by trainee pilots during their navigation training.

[6] Navigational aids[5] On 2 December 1920 (predating the airport's opening) one of the earliest flights to land in Bathurst arrived with mail from Sydney.

This weekly flight landed in a paddock near to town[9] and the lack of an aerodrome for Bathurst was noted in correspondence relating to this new air freight service.

The airport's history starts between 1937 and 1939 when the municipal council investigated several sites considered suitable for an aerodrome.

What finally forced the federal government to act on a site was the Second World War; in 1942 a military airfield was opened at Raglan to take overflow traffic and aircraft parking from the overcrowded Richmond Air Base in Sydney's west.

[20] Several companies provide charter services from the Bathurst Airport including Panorama Airways[21] and Smartair.

328 Squadron of Number 3 Wing Australian Air Force Cadets (AAFC) is based at the Bathurst Regional Airport.