Moi Air Base (RAF Eastleigh)

Moi Air Base, formerly RAF Eastleigh and Eastleigh Airport, is a Kenya Air Force installation located in the Eastleigh suburb east of Nairobi. Established as a Royal Air Force station in 1936 following RAF operations dating to 1929, the site initially hosted detachments of No. 45 Squadron RAF operating Fairey III and Fairey Gordon aircraft. RAF Unit, Kenya was established at the airfield in December 1935, and No. 223 Squadron RAF operated from the base between 1936 and 1939.

During World War II, the base hosted units including No. 237 Squadron RAF, No. 2 (Training) Flight of the Kenya Auxiliary Air Unit, and meteorological flights operating Gloster Gladiators, Hawker Hurricanes, and Supermarine Spitfires. Following the war, the station served as the primary RAF facility in East Africa and home to Air Headquarters East Africa. Post-war RAF occupants included No. 21, No. 30, and No. 82 Squadrons. From March 1953, No. 1340 Flight RAF operated armed Noorduyn Harvard IIBs from the field during anti-Mau Mau operations.

Between 1945 and 1958, the facility held a dual role as Nairobi's primary international civil airport, serving British Overseas Airways Corporation and East African Airways until civilian operations shifted to Embakasi Airport. Site constraints restricted jet aircraft, such as No. 208 Squadron RAF's Hawker Hunters, from operating directly out of Eastleigh in the late 1950s, requiring jet operations to deploy from Embakasi.

Following Kenyan independence, the Kenya Air Force was formed at the base in 1964. Following an attempted coup in August 1982, the air force was reorganized under the Kenyan Army, and the airfield was renamed Moi Air Base.

The installation is operated by the Kenya Air Force and hosts training activities for Kenyan Air Cadets. It is also the site of the East African School of Aviation, established at the airport in 1954 and run by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. Due to its military status, the base is omitted from official maps of Nairobi.