[5] It is operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), covers an area of 742 acres and has a 2,000 metre long runway.

The airport facilitates transport to the pilgrim sites like the Dargah of Khwaja Garib Nawaz, Pushkar and the fort of Prithvi Raj Chauhan in Ajmer.

[6][7] The original proposal for an airport at Kishangarh came following the former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi's visit to Ajmer.

[8] Initial government efforts to acquire land for the project at Sardana had to be abandoned before the current location was chosen by the district administration.

[10] Demands for naming the airport after Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, Veer Teja Ji, Marble City and Prithviraj Chauhan were made, but none of them were granted.