Upgrades from de Havilland Heron to Fokker F27 Friendship aircraft caused Braathens to abandon the airport until 1963, when the current asphalt runway was opened.

The initiative to build an airport in Røros was taken by a group of individuals in 1954, with Olav Bergersen as the most enthusiastic.

They followed up on Bergersen's initiative and made formal contacts with the Norwegian Aero Club and the Civil Aviation Administration (CAA).

Also the Royal Norwegian Air Force showed interest, primarily to use as an emergency airfield.

By mid-September a 900-by-40-meter (2,950 by 130 ft) gravel runway was completed and approved by inspections of the CAA and Braathens.

Telephone lines were installed by Norway Telecom and Royal Dutch Shell built a 12-cubic-meter (420 cu ft) fuel tank.

[3] Services were provided daily by Braathens using their 15-passenger de Havilland Heron aircraft to both Trondheim and Oslo.

This created an overcapacity on the route and Braathens and the local community started cooperating to increase demand through marketing Røros as a cultural, heritage and conference destination.

From 1 April 1994 the airline market in Norway was deregulated, and Braathens was no longer obliged to operate to Røros.

The authorities announced that they would introduce a public service obligation (PSO) auction, financed through a 10 kr fee which would be charged on all domestic routes.

Braathens and Scandinavian Airlines System agreed to waiver the fee in exchange for still operating their unprofitable routes.

[10] As a temporary solution, Danish Air Transport flew the route until 31 July, after bidding NOK 500,000 per month.

The main reasons were more inconvenient flight times, smaller capacity and higher prices, caused by the contractual obligations in the PSO agreement.

[14] The Ministry of Transport and Communications attempted to find a replacement for Coast Air, contacting six different airlines.

[16][17] Danu Oro Transportas began operating a permanent service from 1 April 2009[18] until Widerøe won back the contract for the route 1 December 2012.

[19] During winters of 2010 to 2012, Skyways operated two weekly round trips to Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, using Fokker 50 aircraft, serving ski resorts in the Funäsdalen area.

[22] This airport was left with no scheduled flights after Air Leap ceased operations on January 24, 2022.

[25] Rørosfly was a flight school company based at the airport, operating a fleet of five aircraft.