Gusau is also a major centre for commercial services in the state mostly farming, the gusau people are most of the Hausa tribes, because of the availability of large arable land, its indigenes are mostly farmers it is a New airport that was built by the former governor of zamfara state, Bello Matawalle, it brought great development to zamfara state.

It is the one only functional airport in the state, which handles commercial and private flights to most cities in Nigeria.

The project expect to commence construction in August 2019 in the leadership of Gov.

Bello Matawalle, meanwhile the project was delayed for about 1year beyond the scheduled completion date, so, he stated that the operations will commence by the end of May 2021, he also confirmed that the airport project was to be executed under a USD1 billion, public private partnership (ppp) with afrexim bank.

The surface is actually unpaved, it is also coated with laterite, runway lighting is yet to be installed at the airport.