Since it began operating, its main activity has been skydiving although it also offers photo flights, aerial and tourist advertising, and runs a school of aviation for private pilots.

Centro de Paracaidismo Costa Brava, was founded in 1984 by the Italian-American Maria-Grazia Panozzo and Swiss Roland Hilfiker, as well as American Mitch Decoteau.

This innovative method shifted from the traditional static-line progression system to starting students with 12,500 ft jumps guided by professional instructors giving in-air signals to allow people to practice their positioning at terminal velocity.

The Christmas Boogie, an international event for skydivers who meet to take part in unusual competitions and group jumps, attracted 1,000 registered participants in 1987 and had to be moved to Girona Airport so that aircraft such as the DC-3 and the Caribou could be used.

The mild winter temperatures of the Empordà region turned the Boogie Christmas meeting into Europe's largest event and required a much larger fleet of aircraft to cater for the 12,000 jumps.

In addition to the hangars, packing zone, private team rooms and onsite gas station, it has Pilatus Porter aircraft, a De Havilland Twin Otter and a Beechcraft 99 (plane with the fastest take-off in Europe).

In 2003, the Generalitat of Catalonia used the occasion of the millionth jump to award Castelló d'Empúries the status of Sports Tourism Destination (DTE) for skydiving, in acknowledgement of the facilities.

Its reputation as a stage for European and world titles, the quality of the challenges held at the facilities and its location on the Costa Brava attract famous athletes and public figures from different fields, and have made it a venue for the celebrations of other companies.

World acclaimed athletes from different disciplines, such as tennis players Juan Carlos Ferrero and Sergi Bruguera, motorcyclists Adam Raga, Àlex Crivillé and Sete Gibernau, racing driver Marc Gené, world motorcycling champion Valentino Rossi, Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, taekwondo expert Joel González, swimmer Clara Basiana and sports-adventurer Álvaro Bultó, have jumped here.

One famous anecdote is the story of Marta Ferrusola, wife of former President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Jordi Pujol, who made her first parachute jump from the facilities.

In the year 2000, Fatboy Slim's music video "Bird of Prey" was filmed here, as were the exteriors, in March 2004, for the skydiving chase scenes from the French production Secret Agents, featuring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.