[3] The airport was created in 1939 as a small landing site in the Misrata province of Italian Libya.

[4] On 3 August 2020, a fire destroyed the airport's passenger terminal.

[5] The Libyan Air Force operates the Soko G-2 aircraft extensively at Misrata in both a training and counterinsurgency capacity.

It was reported to have been promptly shot down by the French Air Force.

[6][7] A few hours later an armed forces spokesman specified that the plane was destroyed on the runway with an AASM air-to-ground missile just after it had landed.