It is owned and operated by the Hawke's Bay & East Coast Aero Club Inc.[2] The airport is situated on the Heretaunga Plains and there are two eighteen hole golf courses adjacent to it.

NZ Aerial Mapping has been based at Hastings Aerodrome ever since, and it is New Zealand's oldest aviation company.

Hawke's Bay received an initial quota of 12 trainees, which was supplemented with an extra five pilots every eight weeks.

The Hawke's Bay & East Coast Aero Club linked with the Air Training Corps and in line with a national move agreed to give the Government its planes in the event of war.

The operations of the Hawke's Bay & East Coast Aero Club resumed in January 1946 with the end of the war.

Air Hawke's Bay has NZQA accreditation and the academy is also a Signatory to the Code of Practice for International Students.

The academy is one of five Air New Zealand FTO partners, offering greater outcomes in the airline industry for its graduates.