On 3 September 1932, the Military Transport Service was launched in Colombia, when a Junkers F-13 carried for the first time, to the south of country, Colonel Luis Acevedo and his party.
Although the military air transport infrastructure had not been formed yet, that mission was accomplished during the conflict with Peru in a rudimentary but effective way, with aircraft like the Junkers W-34, Ju 52 and BT-32 Condor.
These aircraft, clearly designed for missions and troop transport war materials led the landing on short runways and unpaved requirements at the time approaching to the needs of the Colombian Air Force.
In order to expand capacity troop transport and cargo in support of surface forces in their fight against subversion and drug trafficking, the Air Force acquired new C-130 Hercules aircraft that have supported, not only missions public policy, but also humanitarian assistance, like the earthquake in Popayan, blocking the road to Llano in October 1991, separating the area from around the country and the earthquake in Armenia, where he carried about 1338 people affected and were delivered 411 tons of humanitarian aid donated by national and international governmental organizations.
In late 1996, came the unfortunate episode of the shipment of drugs in one of the Air Force planes, an incident that tarnished the corporate image, but which allowed the introduction of new security measures and control within the unit to avoid repetition of similar events.
Also, facilities were upgraded Aerospace Museum, unique in Latin America, as aircraft are kept there as the Junkers Ju 52, AT-6 Texan, C-60 Lodestar, Kansan AT-11, Thunderbolt P-47, Mentor T-34, Silver T-33, Skymaster C-54, Invader B-26, Shooting Star F-28, Sabre F-86, Mescalero T-41, Tweet T-37, OV-10 Bronco, Kaydet PT-17, C-47 Skytrain, A-37 Dragon Fly, Merlin C-26 and Hercules C-130 and helicopters such as Eaver L-20 (U6-A), Raven OH-12, UH-1B Iraquois.
In February 2003, the base is responsible for operational missions of aeromedical transport, thanks to the suitability of an aircraft CN-235 Nurtanio Hunting with stretchers, allowing the evacuation of a large number of patients.