Airports of the Somali Region of Ethiopia

About this list

The rows join OurAirports (Ethiopia list) and the GeoNames gazetteer for Ethiopia's Somali Region (GeoNames), with Wikidata where it matches. Fields that two registers place within 4 km of each other are one row. Heights from OurAirports are in feet, from GeoNames in metres. For the Somali community of the region see Somalis in Ethiopia and Somalia and Ethiopia.

Jijiga: Garad Wiil-Waal Airport

Garad Wilwal Airport (IATA JIJ, ICAO HAJJ), also written Garaad Wiil-Waal, serves Jijiga, the regional capital. It is 12 km east of the city and is named after Wiil Waal, a 17th-century ruler of Jigjiga (Wikipedia, Jijiga Gerad Wilwal Airport). Its single asphalt runway, 03/21, is 2,400 by 45 metres, at 5,937 feet (1,810 m) above sea level (same source; OurAirports, HAJJ).

Jijiga's first airfield, north-west of the city centre, was built in 1929. A crash there in July 1930, of a Fiat AS-1 trainer bought in 1929, was the second air disaster in Ethiopia, and the first pilot tests in Ethiopia were passed at Jijiga by Mishka Babitcheff and Asfaw Ali on 1 and 4 September 1930 (Wikipedia, citing the Nordic Africa Institute's local history of Ethiopia). By the 1990s the airport was one of 10 bases of the Ethiopian Air Force (same source). Ethiopian Airlines lists Jijiga in its domestic network (Ethiopian Airlines). OurAirports lists the old field as closed (OurAirports, ET-0001).

Gode: Ugaas Mirad Airport

Gode Airport (GDE, HAGO), named Ugaas Mirad Ugaas Leyli Airport after a former mayor of the town, has one asphalt runway of 2,288 by 35 metres at 254 metres above sea level. The Swedish firm Skanska began building it in 1965, and Emperor Haile Selassie opened it on 10 June 1966. It was first a military air base and later also took civil flights (Wikipedia, Gode Airport, citing the Nordic Africa Institute).

Kebri Dahar (Qabridahar)

Kabri Dar Airport (ABK, HAKD) has a 2,500 by 46 metre concrete runway at 549 metres (1,801 ft) (Wikipedia, Kabri Dar Airport). On 12 June 1977 an Ethiopian Airlines Douglas C-47A (ET-AAP) was damaged beyond repair there when its left landing gear collapsed on landing (Aviation Safety Network).

Smaller fields

• Warder: WRA, HAWR, at 1,850 feet (OurAirports).
• Shilavo: HIL, HASL, a single unpaved runway (Wikipedia, Shilavo Airport).
• Kelafo, Geladi, Degehabur: OurAirports lists Kelafo East (LFO) and Geladi (GLC), and the Degehabur field as closed (OurAirports, Ethiopia).
• Dolo: built between 2009 and 2012 beside the Somali border to support UNHCR's refugee operation (Wikipedia, Dolo Airport).
• GeoNames marks further strips at Mustahil, El Carre, El Suga, God Dere, Hanan and Gurueragu, and abandoned fields at Har Adde and north of Gode.

Every recorded airfield

Related

• Airports and airstrips of Gedo, Bakool, Bay and the Jubba valley
• Airports of North Eastern Kenya