The hangars are mainly used as storage or general purpose facilities; they are not obvious on satellite images and are not freely accessible on the ground.

Airsport enthusiasts are taking control of the runway and stop students from driving cars so that they will not interfere with gliders and planes.

In 1953 the regiment relocated to the Poduzheme airfield in Kemsky district, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

In spring 1980, the regiment, part of the 1st Guards Stalingradsko-Berlinskaya Red Banner Fighter Aviation Division, 15th Air Army, moved from Riga-Rumbula to Lielvārde airfield.

Currently, the airfield is used as a car market, which is the largest in Latvia, as well as for the home base of small aircraft.