Berbera Airport

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Berbera Airport
IATA: BBO - ICAO: HCMI
Summary
Airport type		Public
Serves		Berbera
Elevation AMSL		30 ft (7 m)
Coordinates		10°23′21″N, 44°56′27.98″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
05/23	13,583	4,140	Paved Asphalt (no ILS)

Berbera Airport is an airport in Berbera, Somalia (IATA: BBO, ICAO: HCMI). The airport has a 4,140m (13,582ft) runway, one of the longest in Africa.^[1]. This runway was built by the Soviet Union (USSR) when Somalia was it's ally inorder to counter the United States military presence in the region.^[2]

[edit] Scheduled services

African Express Airways (Dubai, Mogadishu, Sharjah)
Daallo Airlines (Mogadishu, Djibouti)^[1]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Schmitz, Sebastain (2007). "By Ilyushin 18 to Mogadishu". Airways 14 (7): pp. 12–17. ISSN 1074-4320.
^ Yazzie, J.H. 1983 USMC field exercise, this was told to me by my Commanding officer