 Operated by AENA, in 2011 it handled 27,801 passengers and 11,489 flight operations.Beginning February 1, 2013, Torrejon-Madrid Airport was permanently closed to all civilian and general aviation traffic.Since its creation, Torrejon Air Base was also the base of a Spanish Air Force fighter wing, an aerial firefighting group and the flight test group of the Spanish Air Force (Ala 12 of the Spanish Air Force, the 54 Flight Test Group and the 43 Grupo dedicated to aerial firefighting).