 The airport is away from the city and at the same time relatively high so the location where the current position is planned as a NATO base in construction period.The nearest highway to the airport, 13 km south of the D-200 (E-88) Sivas-Ankara highway.The airport was opened to air traffic in 1957 to be used for military purposes; in 1990, DHMI built a terminal building to begin to serve the civilian air traffic.