It was given the highest priority and became the second such facility in Norway, after Karljohansvern Naval Air Station.

This allowed the Norwegian Army Air Service to establish a rudimentary runway.

The station was to carry out operations including participation in exercises through machine gun shooting, dropping of dummy bombs and dummy mines, aerial photography, reconnaissance along the coast from Farsund to Arendal, and radiotelegraphy.

[3] For this the air station was equipped with three Sopwith Camel fighters and two Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.2 reconnaissance aircraft.

Norsk Luftseiladsforening carried out a trial scheduled service between Horten and Kristiansand to the Netherlands in 1924.

[5] Starting in late 1932 Kristiansand Municipality asked that the airport be moved out of the city center.

They proposed Kongsgårdsbukta in Topdalsfjorden, a site which would from 1934 host the civilian Kristiansand Airport, Kongsgårdbukta.

By then the Naval Air Service proposed that a new station would be built at Andøya and planning of this started.

Luftwaffe opted to build a water aerodrome at Kjevik and closed the naval air station.