The last fighter ever to depart, delayed due bad weather at Aviano AB, was a Greek F-4E Phantom II.

During World War I, the Netherlands was a neutral country, and flew border patrol missions from Soesterberg airfield.

The Dutch confiscated all foreign aircraft landing inside the borders of their country during the war, and added the operational ones to their inventory to be used for pilot training at Soesterberg.

On Remembrance of the Dead, May 4, the RNLAF holds a ceremony to remember and commemorate the fallen of World War II.

During World War II, the German Army (Wehrmacht) secretly executed the 33 resistance fighters in the woods of the base.

[3] The first U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) unit to operate from Soesterberg was the 512th Fighter-Day Squadron, which arrived with North American F-86F "Sabre" on 16 November 1954 from RAF Manston in the UK.

At the same time, the squadron began ferrying the F-86s to Prestwick, Scotland, and Châteauroux-Déols Air Base in France for disposal.

The 32d TFS had the unique distinction of being the only unit in the USAF whose emblem included the royal crest of another nation.

It acquired a 24-hour alert interceptor mission from Soesterberg as part of NATO’s Second Allied Tactical Air Force.

As a result of the 1968 Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, the USAF announced that its F-102 squadrons would be re-equipped with the modern McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

The 32nd FIS was first in line to undergo the conversion, and the F-102s were flown back to the United States and were transferred to the Air National Guard.

In 1989, the Dutch government allowed the USAF to change its headquarters unit at Soesterberg AB from squadron to group status.

The last Dutch fighter unit stationed at the airfield was 325 Squadron flying the Hawker Hunter, which was inactivated in August 1968.

In August 1981, 336 Squadron was re-instituted at Soesterberg with the mission of patrolling the skies over and around the islands of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean.

On 19 April, the group furled its colors in formal ceremonies attended by members of the royal family, and the American ambassador.

On 1 July, HQ USAFE activated the 632d Air Base Squadron to replace the 32d Fighter Group at Soesterberg to complete closure actions.

The Nationaal Militair Museum opened at the north-eastern part of the base in 2014 and utilizes the area of the former hangars in a new 38,000 square meterbuilding.

In 2018, Utrechts Landschap (a private heritage protection organisation) purchased the airbase (except for the museum area and Camp New Amsterdam), comprising about 400 hectares and is currently maintaining protection of both the natural landscape (including habitats of rare and newly discovered insect species) and military remains.