[5][6] After WWII, some commercial use of the airport was used for commuter services to local airfields in Pskov oblast (Velikie Luki, Gdov, Samolva, etc.)

and for scheduled flights to Moscow, Leningrad, Riga], Tartu, Vitebsk, Kharkiv, Simferopol and other destinations in the European part of the USSR.

During the 1990s, regular commercial flights were interrupted due to the economic collapse which caused a significant reduction in the demand for passenger and cargo air service and the closure of all local airfields in Pskov and Leningrad oblasts.

[11] In the beginning, these services were operated by St. Petersburg-based carrier Vyborg Airlines but have since been taken over by UTair Aviation and Atlant-Soyuz and later discontinued.

[citation needed] On 29 August 2023, a Ukrainian drone attack targeted the airbase, destroying two Il-76 jets and damaging another two.