Before 1939 it was planned to open a Valsts gaisa satiksme air route Riga - Krustpils - Daugavpils, which, however, was not implemented.

After the occupation of Latvia in 1940, the Gloster Gladiator fighters of the Latvian Aviation Regiment were redeployed here from Rumbula Air Base.

Buildings and communications, including ammunition depots, command points, technical and general purpose structures were privatized by SIA Reka, except for 500 runway concrete plates, which were distributed to the district municipalities.

In 2004, the Latvian Police discovered a large warehouse with illegal tobacco products in one of the airport hangars, containing approximately 1,250,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes.

[4] Around 2008, an asphalt concrete plant was built on the territory of the airport, and a wood processing company operates in the barracks buildings.