Airports and airstrips
Airports and airstrips of Bari and Nugaal
Bari and Nugaal, in Puntland, have 15 recorded airfields. Two take jets: Bosaso's Bender Qassim airport and Garowe's General Mohamed Abshir airport. The rest are dirt or gravel strips at Qardho, Iskushuban, Eyl, Qandala, Caluula, Bandarbeyla and Xaafuun, plus old and abandoned fields. This page lists each one with its codes, runway, position and sources.
About this list
The rows below join three open registers: OurAirports, a public database of airfields with codes and runways (OurAirports, Somalia); GeoNames, the world gazetteer, whose feature codes mark airfields, airports and abandoned airfields (GeoNames); and Wikidata (Wikidata). Where two registers place a field within 4 km of each other they are shown as one row. Heights from OurAirports are in feet; from GeoNames in metres. The Somali name in brackets is the Wikidata label. Runway figures come from OurAirports unless the text says otherwise.
The two main airports
- Bosaso: Bender Qassim International Airport, reopened in January 2016 after an Italian-funded runway rebuild.
- Garowe: General Mohamed Abshir International Airport, opened in 2010, with a Kuwait Fund runway project.
The smaller fields
Iskushuban. The airstrip (CMS, HCMS) has unpaved but marked runways that are unusually wide, at over 550 feet (168 m) (Wikipedia, Iskushuban Airport).
Eyl. The airstrip (HCME) serving the old coastal town of Eyl in Nugaal is at 879 feet (268 m), with a 1,050-metre runway (Wikipedia, Eyl Airport); OurAirports describes it as graded earth.
Qandala (Candala). An airstrip (CXN, HCMC) open to the public, 9 feet above sea level, with one natural-surface runway of 3,579 feet (1,091 m) (Wikipedia, Candala Airport).
Caluula (Alula). The airstrip (ALU, HCMA) serves the Gulf of Aden town of Caluula; the runway lies about half a kilometre inland, parallel to the shore (Wikipedia, Alula Airport).
Xaafuun (Hafun). OurAirports lists two strips on the Xaafuun peninsula: a coastal strip (HCBA) and the "Old Base" strip (HCBG) to the east (OurAirports, SO-0004; OurAirports, SO-0005).
Old and abandoned fields. OurAirports records the old Bosaso airport as closed. GeoNames marks two abandoned airfields near Meeladeen and lists strips at Dudo and at a site it names "Conoco" in Nugaal (GeoNames). For oil exploration in the region see Oil and gas.
Every recorded airfield
| Airfield | Town | Codes | Runway | Height | Position | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alula Airport (Gegada diyaaradah Caluula) | Alula | ALU / HCMA | 6 ft | 11.958, 50.748 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia | |
| Bandarbeyla Airport | Bandarbeyla | 9.46, 50.742 | OurAirports | |||
| Bender Qassim International Airport | Bosaso | BSA / HCMF | 01/19 3550 ft SAN; 09/27 7874 ft ASP | 3 ft | 11.275, 49.139 | OurAirports; GeoNames |
| Candala Airport (Gegada diyaarada Qandala) | Candala | CXN / HCMC | 04/22 3610 ft | 30 ft | 11.496, 49.91 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia |
| Conoco | 382 m | 8.537, 48.689 | GeoNames | |||
| Dudo | 398 m | 9.347, 50.208 | GeoNames | |||
| Eil Airport (Gegada diyaaradaha Eyl) | Eyl | HCM / HCME | 06/24 3445 ft Graded earth | 879 ft | 8.104, 49.82 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia |
| Gardo Airport (Gegada diyaaradaha Qardho) | Gardo | GSR / HCMG | 2632 ft | 9.546, 49.119 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia | |
| Garowe Airport | Garowe | GGR / HCGR | 06/24 6562 ft ASP | 1465 ft | 8.458, 48.568 | OurAirports; GeoNames |
| Hafun Airstrip | Hafun | HCBA | 35 ft | 10.445, 51.247 | OurAirports; GeoNames | |
| Hafun Old Base Airstrip | Hafun | HCBG | 555 ft | 10.415, 51.326 | OurAirports; GeoNames | |
| Iskushuban Airport (Gegada Diyaaradaha Iskushuban) | Iskushuban | CMS / HCMS | 1121 ft | 10.314, 50.206 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia | |
| Meeladeen | (abandoned) | 424 m | 10.53, 49.725 | GeoNames | ||
| Meeladeen West | (abandoned) | 478 m | 10.576, 49.587 | GeoNames | ||
| Old Bosaso Airport | Bosaso | (closed) | 11.268, 49.099 | OurAirports; GeoNames |
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Sources
- OurAirports, Somalia · ourairports.com
- GeoNames · geonames.org
- Wikidata · wikidata.org
- Wikipedia, Iskushuban Airport · en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, Eyl Airport · en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, Candala Airport · en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, Alula Airport · en.wikipedia.org
- OurAirports, SO-0004 · ourairports.com
- OurAirports, SO-0005 · ourairports.com
- GeoNames · geonames.org
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