[2] It is used by owners of light and ultralight aircraft, chiefly for pleasure flying and crop dusting.

The present-day airport building was originally the RCAF Station Neepawa, constructed during the Second World War under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP).

Their lives in Manitoba, on and off base, are dramatized in the 1993 film For the Moment, starring New Zealand actor Russell Crowe.

[5][6] After the war until the 1960s, the original control tower was operated in support of civil aviation by the Canadian Department of Transport.

Other airport facilities, including a hangar and a rifle range, continued for some years to serve Squadron 9[7] of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and the local militia organization.