The station was built in 1940 by the British Army and used by the Royal Air Force from March 1941 and throughout the remainder of the Second World War.

[2] During 1943 lodger facilities for an RN Air Section were granted from RAF Coastal Command to provide and maintain, in storage, Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber aircraft for escort carriers on North Atlantic convoy duties and for MAC-Ships.

[4] The Fairey Swordfish for storage were flown in from the Long Island-class escort carrier HMS Archer (D78) on 5 May and its embarked squadrons 819 and 892 spent the night at the airbase.

[4] After the end of the Second World War the British Government handed the airfield over to the Icelandic Civil Aviation Authority and it was used for a short while until it was closed.

It is now in ruins with the decaying runways, perimeter track, dispersals and site of some of the buildings still visible on satellite images in 2018.