The field was used by Luftwaffe to carry military attacks on Serbia during World War II.

[citation needed] The first phase encompasses the building of the control tower, hangar, terminal, aircraft parking area and other essentials.

In September 2008, Austrian company Vizium Air (the general representative of Diamond Aircraft, the largest sports aircraft producer in Europe), signed an agreement with the City Council of Zrenjanin that includes the construction of facilities for sports aircraft plant (opening of two production facilities), a service centre and a flying school in Zrenjanin with reconstruction of concrete runway, which would employ 400 people.

that it intended to buy another 15 hectares of land close to the aerodrome, and would invest 30 million euros in the development of the aircraft industry in Serbia.

However, in early December 2009, Vizium Air announced that the agreement has been mutually cancelled by the company and the town's administration, since it was "designed in such a way that realization would be impossible".