Private firms do on occasion operate chartered helicopter flights inside the country and to the CIS.

In 1938, the 4th Voroshilov Aviation Squadron, part of the Transcaucasian Military District, was based at the airfield, outfitted with I-15, I-16 and I-153 aircraft.

On 27 September 1996 a succeeding agreement was signed which authorized the establishment of Russian aviation bases at Gyumri and Yerevan.

[5] Russian fighter aircraft arrived in four separate batches: five MiG-29s on 16 December 1998, five on 26 February 1999, four more on 18 June and the final four on 22 October 1999.

[8] On 4 November 2008, an Mi-24 attack helicopter of the Armenian Air Force crashed as it was preparing for a training flight.