[1][failed verification] The airport is the main hub of Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE).

It was named after Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi (21 February 1877 – 4 June 1940),who was an Argentine military engineer, best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum surveyance and exploitation in Argentina.

[4] It was built in 1929, and was officially inaugurated with an Aeroposta Argentina flight between Bahía Blanca and Comodoro Rivadavia vía San Antonio Oeste and Trelew on 1 November 1929.

[citation needed] On 22 November 2017, the longest non-stop flight ever made by the Royal Air Force (RAF) of the United Kingdom landed at the airport.

The flight was part of the RAF's support in the search for the ARA San Juan (S-42) submarine which had disappeared days before.