[citation needed] In April 1932, it was handed over to the Ministry of Military Affairs (the equivalent of the Polish Ministry of National Defence at the time), which expanded the facility by buying more land; building hangars, barracks and a shooting range; and started training military pilots and paratroopers.

During the War's first days, German forces bombed the airport, destroying aircraft and hangars and causing the personnel to evacuate.

During the occupation of Poland, the Luftwaffe used it for training and preparation of German pilots for battle on the Eastern Front.

The Polish military returned to Sadków in March 1945 and since then pilot training has continued until today.

[6] At the end of January 2011, a free-lease agreement for a 125 hectares (310 acres; 0.48 sq mi) civilian and military joint use airport area was signed.

[7] In September that year, the Polish Civil Aviation Office issued a permit for civilian operations after fulfilling Chicago Convention requirements.

The Latvian carrier scheduled three weekly flights to its home base in Riga with Bombardier Q400, starting on September 1.

The airline filed three-weekly flights from Radom to its hub in Prague using ATR 42 aircraft starting on 18 September.

[14] Czech Airlines decided to discontinue its flights from and to Radom with effect of late October, that had an average load of three passengers.

[15] airBaltic followed and announced on short notice to cancel its services and end its co-operation with the airport from November 18 onwards.

On 26 February 2016, Polish regional airline SprintAir announced it would commence operations from Radom in collaboration with the airport.

From 18 April, the carrier based one Saab 340 aircraft at Radom Airport for flights to Berlin Tegel, Gdańsk, Prague and Wroclaw.

[23] All remaining SprintAir flights were terminated on 30 October 2017, after the two parties could not agree on a further extension of their agreement.

Over the time, the local government had poured substantial budget into both developing and operating the loss-making facility as well to fund short-lived scheduled flight connections that were commercially unviable.

The previous commercial passenger traffic attempts were entirely funded and by the regional government.

With an anticipated construction time of ten years and budgeted cost of USD 9.6bn, it is to become one of Europe’s largest airport sites.

[28] The plan and following decision to establish the site as a future relief airport for Warsaw was heavily criticized by the airlines intended to use the facility.

In 2019, PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe proposed the site of a new Radom Wschodni passenger station as part of the renovation of a road viaduct on ul.