Arba Minch Airport

Coordinates: 06°02′23″N 037°35′25″E / 6.03972°N 37.59028°E / 6.03972; 37.59028
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Arba Minch Airport
  • SNNPR in red)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
03/21 2,800 9,186 Asphalt concrete
Sources:[1][2][3]

Arba Minch Airport

transliterated as Arba Mintch.[3] The airport is located 5 km (3 miles) northeast of the city centre,[1] near Lake Abaya
.

Facilities

The airport sits at an

mean sea level. Its only runway, designated 03/21, has an asphalt concrete surface and measures 2,800 by 45 metres (9,186 ft × 148 ft).[1]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Addis Ababa

Military use

In October 2011 it was confirmed that the U.S.

airstrikes from the base.[6] However, according to OSGEOINT, mapped imagery of the MQ-9A ranges may also suggest mission support to other countries outside of Somalia.[7]

Air Force (magazine notes in its 2012/13 annual survey of units that the

United States Air Forces Africa area of responsibility.[8]
In early April 2012, the second drone crash in four months was reported at the Reaper detachment in Mahe, Seychelles.[9]

The enclave at the base closed down during January 2016.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Arba Minch Airport". Ethiopian Airports Enterprise. Archived from the original on 29 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b Airport information for HAAM[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  3. ^ a b Airport information for AMH at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ^ "Domestic Route Map". Ethiopian Airlines.
  5. ^ a b Whitlock, Craig (27 October 2011), "U.S. Drone Base in Ethiopia is Operational", The Washington Post
  6. ^ "US flies drones from Ethiopia to fight Somali militants". BBC News. 28 October 2011.
  7. ^ "Ethiopia Imagery & The US Drone Deployments for AFRICOM - A Comment". OSGEOINT. 6 April 2012.
  8. ^ http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Magazine/2013/0513fullissue.pdf. See also http://www.179aw.ang.af.mil/resources/biographies/bio.asp?id=18049 Archived 2015-03-05 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ^ Reuters Editorial. "Drone crashes in Seychelles, second in four months". U.S. Retrieved 2018-08-20. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  10. AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd
    . March 2016. p. 17.
  11. ^ "As New Threats Emerge, U.S. Closes Drone Base in Ethiopia". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2018-08-20.

External links

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