RAAF Base Woomera (WMA), was proclaimed by Chief of Air Force Directive in January 2015.

The 'village' has previously always functioned as an Australian Government/Defence Force garrison facility until it was fully incorporated into RAAF Base Woomera in 2015.

Note: Aeronautical access requirements for RAAF Woomera aerodrome can be found in the 'On-route supplement Australia' (ERSA).

Large aircraft movements occur often at Woomera in support of ADF test and evaluation activities on the complex.

In 2016, through public tender, a significant repair was made to Hangar 1, and in 2018 the air movements terminal was refurbished and a new secure-storage facility built.

A new connecting road between the magazine area (west of the airfield) and the northern end of the main runway was constructed.

The first control tower at the Woomera Test Range originally came from RAAF Base Uranquinty, New South Wales.

2 Airfield Construction Squadron in the late 1940s and shipped to Woomera, where it was re-erected and reopened in the early 1950s at Evetts Field.

On 15 May 1951 Koolymilka airfield was officially named Evetts Field in honour of Lieutenant General John Fullerton Evetts, who led the English party that selected the Woomera site for the Anglo-Australian Long Range Weapons Establishment, and handed over to the Department of Supply.