History

Designed in 1937 as a military airport for the Second Republic of Poland, it remained unused until the 1940s, when it was adapted as an air base for the German Luftwaffe in occupied Poland. From 1945 to 2000 it was used by the Polish Air Force, when there was an intensive expansion of the airport, when it served as a training airfield for helicopter and airplane pilots.  In 2000, the Polish Ministry of Defense transferred the airport to the resources of the Military Property Agency.

 In 2003, at the headquarters of the Regional Center for Consultancy, Agricultural and Rural Development in Poświętne, parliamentarians, local government officials and businessmen signed a Letter of Intent to locate an airport on the site of the former military airport in Modlin. In 2005, a preliminary investment plan was drawn up, and in 2006 the President of the Civil Aviation Authority issued a permit to establish a civil airport.   The location in the vicinity of Warsaw makes Warsaw/Modlin Airport particularly attractive for the organization of Point-to-Point routes of low-cost carriers, for which Warsaw Chopin Airport proved too expensive to operate. In addition, Warsaw/Modlin Airport was to take over some of the Point-to-Point traffic of the overburdened Warsaw Chopin Airport. In order to carry out this function as a permanent civilian airport, the existing infrastructure had to be modernized and a passenger terminal built.  In 2008, the government authorized the modernization of Modlin Airport. In September 2009, tenders were completed. On February 8, 2010, the airport was officially registered by the Civil Aviation Authority as a civil airport.Construction work began on October 8, 2010 and was completed in 2012. The new facility was equipped with CAT II navigation lights, ILS, a DVOR/DME system operating 24 hours a day, a runway 2,500 meters long and 45 meters wide, a parking plane for Code C aircraft (12 stands) and a passenger terminal building .