Airports and airstrips of Mudug, Galguduud and Hiiraan

About this list

The rows join OurAirports (Somalia list), the GeoNames gazetteer (GeoNames) and Wikidata (Wikidata). Fields that two registers place within 4 km of each other are one row. Heights from OurAirports are in feet, from GeoNames in metres; the Somali name in brackets is the Wikidata label.

Galkayo

Abdullahi Yusuf Airport in north Galkayo has two parallel 3 km strips, one paved. Wikidata also lists an "Oshaco International Airport" serving Galmudug, at the point GeoNames calls "Galkaio South" (Wikidata, Q38251117).

Beledweyne

Beledweyne's airport (BLW, HCMN), also called Ugaas Khaliif International Airport and earlier Duqow Ahmed Fiidow airport, is in open country about 2 km north-east of the city. Its only runway, 04/22, is 2,200 by 20 metres of crushed rock and packed sand, at 559 feet above sea level (Wikipedia, Beledweyne Airport). It reopened for civilian use in June 2012 (Sabahi, June 2012). The Djibouti Defence Forces had refurbished the strip by February 2015, and the municipality launched a further project that May (Goobjoog, February 2015; Goobjoog, May 2015). Wikipedia states the airport is named after Ugaas Khaliif, an ugaas (traditional leader) of the Xawaadle (Wikipedia).

Cabudwaaq (Abudwak)

Cabudwaaq's airport began as a dirt strip. A rebuild started in 2011, paid for by people from the area living abroad; in June 2012 the Somali-American Women's Foundation gave $70,000 after the airport committee asked for help. Scheduled flights began on 11 October 2012, and the airport handled about 2 flights a day and 800 passengers a month. In February 2021 the runway was regravelled and graded ahead of paving (Wikipedia, Abudwak Airport, citing Sabahi and Sokaab). The town sits on the Ethiopian border, so the airport also serves nearby settlements across it.

Cadaado, Dhuusamareeb and Guriceel

• Cadaado (Adado): IATA AAD, ICAO HCAD. Wikipedia calls it the largest working airport in Galmudug (Wikipedia, Adado Airport).
• Dhuusamareeb: also known as Ugaas Nuur Airport, serving Galmudug's capital (Wikipedia, Dusmareb Airport); OurAirports gives the code HCDM (OurAirports).
• Guriceel: IATA GUO, a domestic airport (Wikipedia, Guriel Airport).

The coast: Hobyo and Garacad

Hobyo's airstrip (CMO, HCMO, also called Obbia) has one 1,100-metre unpaved runway parallel to the coast about 2 km inland, with no fuel storage and no scheduled flights (Wikipedia, Hobyo Airport). OurAirports lists a strip at Garacad, where a new port is being built (OurAirports, SO-0011; Wikipedia, Garacad).

Every recorded airfield

Related

• Mudug, Galgaduud, Hiiraan
• Galmudug and Hirshabelle