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Since December 16, , the airport is also named after the Minas Gerais-born poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade — Pampulha Airport was opened in as a support facility for passenger flights operated by the Brazilian Air Force between Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza.

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The first commercial operation started in , when Panair do Brasil was granted a concession to fly between Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte. In , the runway was extended to 1,m x 45m, in to 1,m, and finally in to 2,m. With the great increase of traffic at Pampulha Airport, the facility became too small and unable to handle all operations.

For this reason, the new Tancredo Neves International Airport was built in the adjoining municipality of Confins. The new facility was opened in Due to the long distance between Belo Horizonte and Confins, Pampulha remained the airport of choice for most airlines, eventually becoming overcrowded, while Confins was under-used.

In order to revert this scenario, in March the government of the state of Minas Gerais with the support of agencies of the Federal government decided to restrict Pampulha to operations of aircraft with capacity of up to 50 passengers. The investment was used to build a new control tower, upgrade the general aviation hangars, and enlarge the apron.

Between and , the airport was operated by Infraero.