The El Yopal VOR-DME (Ident: EYP) is located 2.9 nautical miles (5.4 km) off the approach threshold of Runway 05.

[4] In 1996, Ecopetrol, BP, and other companies were interested in the petroleum that the department has and decided to invest 6100 million pesos for improving the runway and offices with the goal of adapting the airport to allow the Antonov 124 a safe landing.

On 27 November 1996, Ernesto Samper, a former president of Colombia, arrived in a Boeing 707 at El Alcaraván airport to inaugurate the improvements that were made by the oil companies.

In September 2006, the Camara de Comercio de Casanare (Casanare Chamber of Commerce) asked the Ministry of Transport to make El Alcaraván an international airport, because it has all the facilities that are needed, it would increase the economy of the department, and it would let the flights that come from North America and South America refuel.

[5] In August 1997, the specialized magazine Motor from Bogotá, published an article about the flights that the Antonov, one of the largest airplanes in the world with a capacity of 120 tons, had flown from Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla to Yopal in order to deliver machines and material that BP needed for building oil wells in Casanare.