[1] It was founded in 1989 as a brigade-level unit with the name Lapland Air Defence Regiment (Finnish: Lapin ilmatorjuntarykmentti).

In 2015, the Regiment was disabanded and its battalion-level unit Rovaniemi Air Defence Battalion was attached to the Jaeger Brigade.

2nd Air Defence Battery trained most of the NCOs of the Battalion as well as some ground based air defence support troops, for example targeting radar platoons and operation centres.

The Airbase Support Company trained logistics platoons of varying types.

[3] The Air Force conscripts with special training such as assistant aircraft mechanician NCOs who served in Lapland Air Command were administratively part of the Airbase Support Company of the Battalion.