During the German occupation, Luftwaffe planes were stationed at Babie Doły Airport, conducting tests related to torpedoes.

On 3 September 2009, a tender was launched for the airport master plan with a capacity of 0.5 million passengers per year, and on 18 December a new air traffic control tower was put into operation.

On 18 October 2010, a tender was announced for the construction of a passenger terminal designed to handle general aviation traffic.

At the beginning of 2012, construction works on its implementation were started by Sport Halls from Wrocław, which for PLN 20.9 million in less than a year built the GA (General Aviation) terminal: a one-storey facility with a building area of 3.9 thousand.m2 and a cubic capacity of 21.3 thousand.m3.

It was planned that for the first years of its existence, the airport would accept small business aircraft, cargo and charter flights.

Poland notified the European Commission about the public recapitalisation by the authorities of the municipalities of Gdynia and Kosaków of the company responsible for the construction and operation of the port of Gdynia-Kosakowo with the equivalent of EUR 52 million.

On 2 July 2013, the European Commission announced that it had opened an investigation into the financing of the construction of a civil airport in Gdynia.

The authorities of Gdynia, in a notification to the European Commission examining the correctness of maintaining the market balance at the time of granting Gdynia Kosakowo Airport the amount of EUR 52 million in subsidies (ca ~ PLN 217 million, according to the Euro exchange rate as at 12 August 2013), provided false data on the level of passenger traffic and the capacity of the airport in Gdańsk.

The European Commission has concluded that the public funds transferred by the municipalities of Gdynia and Kosakowo to the Gdynia-Kosakowo airport grant the beneficiary an undue competitive advantage, in particular over the airport in Gdańsk, which is a violation of EU state aid rules – informs Marta Angrocka-Krawczyk from the European Commission Representation in Poland.

In 2017, the court overturned the decisions of the European Commission, but despite this, the authorities of Gdynia resigned from launching regular passenger services, being satisfied only with allowing the movement of small civil aircraft.

The most advantageous offer worth PLN 8 million 666 thousand net was submitted by INBAP Intermodal from Biała Podlaska, however, despite the conclusion of a preliminary sales agreement on 14 January 2021, due to the failure to obtain certificates required by the aviation law, the transaction was not finalised.