Wajir Airport was built by an Israeli construction company, HZ, between 1977 and 1978 as a military airbase. On September 7, 2007, President Kibaki commissioned the airport to accommodate civil and military aircraft operations.

Wajir airport is 5km west of Wajir town. It occupies 566.48 hectares and plans are underway to acquire more land for expansion to 801. 77 hectares. It has a 2.8km long runway designated as runway 15/33 and eight taxiways named A-H.

Wajir airport opens daily operations at 0630 hours and closes at 1830 hours. It is open to propeller aircraft at its current state due to loose chips on the runways, taxiways and apron, and it is restricted to jet-engined aircraft for safely purposes. It has a terminal building which houses the arrivals and departure lounges, check in, screening and transit areas.

The administration wing, police station, Immigration, Customs and port health are in the same building On the western side of the building is a borehole, the source of water the airport.

The control tower, crash gate and fire station are 50 metres south of

The terminal building. The airport accommodates two military camps in its perimeter fence. The Airforce camp is half a kilometre to the south, while the Army camp is almost the same distance to the west of building. Entrance to the airport is through a single gate, which is manned by armed military officers.

Wajir Airport has a work force of about 100, most of them from the police department. However, several other agencies — KAA, KCAA, Immigration, Customs, NSIS and Porthealth — are represented. The airport is able to handle inter-national and domestic arrival and departure passenger and cargo aircraft.

As of now, the only passenger flights are by Echo, which lands twice a week to drop or pick passengers, mostly NGO staff. Other flights are charter, cargo or military. The Air-port gets seven flights a day most of which are cargo.