It is located 3.0 NM (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) northwest[1] of Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, in northern Honshū, Japan.

Aircraft are regularly dispatched to forward airfields in Hokkaidō, and in wintertime, conduct patrols of drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk.

[citation needed] On the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, the air field was occupied by the United States Army.

[2][3] With the start of the Korean War in 1950, the base was turned over to the Japanese Coastal Safety Force, the immediate predecessor to the JMSDF.

In an administrative reorganization in 2008, UH-60J helicopter operations were transferred to JMSDF Ōminato Air Station.