diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/apache-airflow/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/apache-airflow/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a0f2673b1fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/apache-airflow/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, alembic
+, configparser
+, croniter
+, dill
+, flask
+, flask-appbuilder
+, flask-admin
+, flask-caching
+, flask_login
+, flask-swagger
+, flask_wtf
+, funcsigs
+, future
+, GitPython
+, gunicorn
+, iso8601
+, json-merge-patch
+, jinja2
+, lxml
+, markdown
+, pandas
+, pendulum
+, psutil
+, pygments
+, python-daemon
+, python-dateutil
+, requests
+, setproctitle
+, sqlalchemy
+, tabulate
+, tenacity
+, text-unidecode
+, thrift
+, tzlocal
+, unicodecsv
+, werkzeug
+, zope_deprecation
+, enum34
+, typing
+, nose
+, isPy27
+}:
+
+let # import error "from pendulum import Pendulum" due to 2.x
+    pendulum1 = pendulum.overrideAttrs (super: rec {
+      name = "pendulum-1.5.1";
+
+      src = fetchPypi {
+        pname = super.pname;
+        version = "1.5.1";
+        sha256 = "738878168eb26e5446da5d1f7b3312ae993a542061be8882099c00ef4866b1a2";
+      };
+
+     propagatedBuildInputs = super.propagatedBuildInputs ++ [ tzlocal ];
+    });
+
+   # 2.x has fstrings
+   flask-appbuilder1 = flask-appbuilder.overrideAttrs (super: rec {
+     name = "flask-appbuilder-1.13.0";
+
+     src = fetchPypi {
+       pname = "Flask-AppBuilder";
+       version = "1.13.0";
+       sha256 = "1bjcnklpycw62a02kilkdc48vk67sykvlp8l1bvqszkjxvvfhgvg";
+     };
+
+     buildPhase = ''
+      substituteInPlace setup.py \
+        --replace "prison==0.1.0" "prison"
+     '' + super.buildPhase;
+   });
+in
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "apache-airflow";
+  version = "1.10.3";
+
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "73840fa3d2f3a523010ce685aa15714d01a4cf42bd6bd77716c4321f82bab140";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    alembic
+    configparser
+    croniter
+    dill
+    flask
+    flask-appbuilder1
+    flask-admin
+    flask-caching
+    flask_login
+    flask-swagger
+    flask_wtf
+    funcsigs
+    future
+    GitPython
+    gunicorn
+    iso8601
+    json-merge-patch
+    jinja2
+    lxml
+    markdown
+    pandas
+    pendulum1
+    psutil
+    pygments
+    python-daemon
+    python-dateutil
+    requests
+    setproctitle
+    sqlalchemy
+    tabulate
+    tenacity
+    text-unidecode
+    thrift
+    tzlocal
+    unicodecsv
+    werkzeug
+    zope_deprecation
+  ] ++ lib.optionals isPy27 [ enum34 typing ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    nose
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+   substituteInPlace setup.py \
+     --replace "flask-caching>=1.3.3, <1.4.0" "flask-caching" \
+     --replace "flask-appbuilder==1.12.3" "flask-appbuilder" \
+     --replace "pendulum==1.4.4" "pendulum" \
+     --replace "configparser>=3.5.0, <3.6.0" "configparser" \
+     --replace "jinja2>=2.7.3, <=2.10.0" "jinja2" \
+     --replace "funcsigs==1.0.0" "funcsigs" \
+     --replace "flask-swagger==0.2.13" "flask-swagger" \
+     --replace "python-daemon>=2.1.1, <2.2" "python-daemon" \
+     --replace "alembic>=0.9, <1.0" "alembic" \
+     --replace "markdown>=2.5.2, <3.0" "markdown" \
+     --replace "future>=0.16.0, <0.17" "future" \
+     --replace "tenacity==4.12.0" "tenacity" \
+     --replace "werkzeug>=0.14.1, <0.15.0" "werkzeug"
+  '';
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+   export HOME=$(mktemp -d)
+   export AIRFLOW_HOME=$HOME
+   export AIRFLOW__CORE__UNIT_TEST_MODE=True
+   export AIRFLOW_DB="$HOME/airflow.db"
+
+   $out/bin/airflow initdb
+   $out/bin/airflow resetdb
+   nosetests --cover-package=airflow
+  '';
+
+  # tests are extremely complex to run
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines";
+    homepage = http://airflow.apache.org/;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.costrouc ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c252048018d..7bf1f4b6cda 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1434,6 +1434,8 @@ in {
 
   antlr4-python3-runtime = callPackage ../development/python-modules/antlr4-python3-runtime { antlr4 = pkgs.antlr4; };
 
+  apache-airflow = callPackage ../development/python-modules/apache-airflow { };
+
   apipkg = callPackage ../development/python-modules/apipkg {};
 
   appdirs = callPackage ../development/python-modules/appdirs { };