The air base, at an altitude of 620 m above sea level, has a single runway with a length of 3.06 km.

It was the first air bases in Spain where the first autogyro was flown its designer Juan de la Cierva.

Through an agreement signed with the Getafe City Council, the Infante de Orleans Foundation, which maintains a collection of old aircraft in flight, will soon[when?]

[vague] Given the possibility of closing, increasingly remote, the Madrid-Cuatro Vientos Airport (civil), there have been several proposals for the creation of a civil aerodrome for general aviation and a terminal for low-cost airplanes, over the land of the Getafe Air Base.

This proposal has always had the opposition of the City of Getafe, which does not want to increase the pollution that entails the heavy traffic of a civil airport.