For this reason, the City council of Córdoba, under directives of the mayor Antonio Cruz Conde and the architect José Rebollo Dicenta, had to take charge of the funding.

The project was approved by the Council of Ministers on September 14, 1956, with the understanding that, once the works were completed, the airport would be transferred to the State.

On November 5, the first flight to Madrid with the Aviaco company took place, using a Heron twelve-seater four-engine plane, which would later be replaced by a DC-3.

After serious economic problems, the Aviaco company stopped operating at the airport in 1967, although it returned two years later due to the subsidization of 60% of the seats by the provincial council.

[1] For a short period, in 2008, FlySur airline operated flights from this airport to Vigo, Barcelona, and Bilbao, being the only regular lines that left from it in a long time.

The passenger terminal is located on the ground floor of the main building and includes the departures, arrivals, cafeteria, services, and administration offices area.

The airport does not have a major impact on the activity of the city of Córdoba or the province in general due to the absence of regular flights.

It does have a high impact on the Reina Sofía University Hospital due to the number of transplants that are performed in this health center with organs delivered by air.