Laikipia AB was established in 1974 as Nanyuki Air Base and later renamed for the county in which it is located.

[3] After the a failed coup by a group of KAF officers on 1 August 1982, the Kenya Air Force was disbanded and placed under the control of the Kenyan Army.

[4] In 2015, the UK began an infrastructure project to relocate the HQ for its British Army training unit in Kenya, named the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK), to Laikipia Air Base.

[5] The HQ is located within an area designated Laikipia Air Base East (LAB(E)).

LAB(E) now provides permanent facilities on land leased directly from the Kenyan government.