[2] In July 1981 the regiment was redesignated as a Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment, and shifted to the 39th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division, still within the Air Forces, but now within the Air Forces of the Baltic Military District, as they had become in 1981.

Between 2007 and 2014 the air base underwent a major modernization, including the construction of a new administrative headquarters building opened in 2009, and a state-of-the-art runway and taxiways.

In September 2016, Latvia's Defence Minister Raimonds Bergmanis said infrastructure at the air base was "being constructed and modernized at a fast pace"[3] in preparation for a Canadian-led multi-national NATO battalion expected to deploy to Latvia in the spring of 2017.

[5] According to ADS-B tracking data, beginning on April 13, 2022 the airport received multiple visits by three LM-100J aircraft (N67AU, N96MG, N71KM) belonging to the American company Pallas Aviation.

By December 31, 2023 these flights numbered at least 77, almost all originating at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.