[3] The Proefvliegafdeling-KNIL (PVA-KNIL), an aircraft testing unit within the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and the precursor to the ML-KNIL, was created on 30 May 1914.

The flight ended in a crash, killing Michielsen, with Ter Poorten suffering injury in the head.

[9] Due to its importance as the training site for pilots, in the same year the runway was lengthened to 1,400 meters.

[6] During the 1919 England to Australia flight, one of the contestants' aircraft, the Vickers Vimy "G-EAOU", transited at Kalijati on 6 December 1919.

Oonincx was testing a new parachute for the air force by jumping from a Fokker C.IV flying above the airfield.

[10] Kalijati Airfield was inactivated for some time due to budget cuts caused by the Great Depression in the 1920s.

[12] At the same time, some of the ML-KNIL's new Martin 139 bomber fleet was stationed at Kalijati due to overcapacity at the Andir Airfield in Bandung.

[11] At the start of the Pacific War in December 1941, Kalijati was the home base for the following units:[13] After the fall of Sumatra, Bristol Blenheims of the No.

At the start of the Battle of Java, there were 43 Dutch fighters stationed at Kalijati, consisted of 24 Brewster Buffalo, two Curtiss Hawk 75A, six Curtiss-Wright CW-21B and 11 Hurricane Mk IIB, although only 26 of them were operational.

[14] The first Japanese air raid against Kalijati during the Dutch East Indies campaign occurred on 20 February 1942.

A mixed force of 34 Ki-43 fighters and 10 Ki-48 bombers[15] from the 59th, 64th, and 90th Sentais of the IJAAF Third Air Army based in Palembang attacked the airfield and claimed the destruction of eight Allied aircraft,[16] although the Allied forces only claim two Dutch bombers destroyed, with two others damaged.

The airfield would also be utilized to base large numbers of aircraft for the offensive to seize Bandung.

[22] The Allied forces would launch several counterattacks in the next two days to recapture the airfield, but the Japanese were able to repel them with the help of air support.

Five Buffalos and six Hurricanes arrived half an hour later and damaged the captured Blenheims and transport aircraft.

[28] Negotiations and the formal signing for the surrender of the Dutch East Indies took place at the airfield on 8–9 March 1942.