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Aden Adde International Airport serves Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, and is named after Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, the country's first President. A single long hard-surfaced runway and a straightforward radio setup make it a notable waypoint for anyone planning a flight into the Horn of Africa, though its history reflects decades of conflict and recovery.
Aden Adde International Airport, formerly Mogadishu International Airport, is the principal gateway to Mogadishu and to Somalia as a whole. It is named after Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, the nation's first President, and has long served as the country's main hub for both civilian and military aviation. For a simulator pilot, it offers an interesting study in an airfield that has endured heavy wartime damage and repeated periods of closure and rehabilitation while remaining Somalia's principal air link to the outside world.
The airport lies at Mogadishu, in the Banaadir region of Somalia, close to the city itself. No specific airspace classification, FIR boundary detail, or neighbouring controlled airspace information is available from the sources consulted.
The airfield has a single physical runway, 05/23, aligned northeast-southwest. It is 10,463 feet long, has a hard surface, and is lit. There is no ILS installed. Field elevation is 20 feet above mean sea level.
Approach and Tower services are combined on a single frequency of 132.5 MHz.
The airfield was established in 1928 as Aeroporto di Mogadiscio-Petrella, the first such facility in the Horn of Africa, and served as the main military airport for Italian Somaliland. Civilian and commercial services began in the mid-1930s, with Ala Littoria operating a 13-hour Asmara-Assab-Mogadishu route from 1935 using a Caproni 133 carrying up to 18 passengers, then a record capacity. In 1936 Ala Littoria launched an intercontinental service linking Mogadishu, Asmara, Khartoum, Tripoli and Rome, a four-day journey that was among the first long-range flights in the world. Following Somali independence the airport expanded to serve numerous international carriers, with state-owned Somali Airlines flying regularly to major cities by the mid-1960s, and the field able to handle small jets and DC-6B aircraft by 1969. In the 1970s Somalia's socialist government enlisted Soviet assistance for major renovations that enlarged both civilian and military capacity; the Somali Air Corps maintained an airlift wing and a military academy at the field. In the 1980s the United States Navy was brought in to further expand the airport, including a new control tower and navigational aids, while the Somali Civil Aviation Authority contracted the Italian firm Selenia to build a second international terminal, a new control tower and air traffic control equipment. The collapse of the Siad Barre regime and the outbreak of civil war in 1991 halted these works and caused significant damage, with operations disrupted for years afterward. African Express Airways became the first international carrier to resume regular flights, on 3 August 2006. On 8 June 2007 the Transitional Federal Government renamed the airport in honour of Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, who had died that day. Renewed fighting following the Ethiopian intervention led most civilian traffic to divert to the K50 Airstrip, about 50 km away in Lower Shabelle, from 2008. Security in Mogadishu improved markedly from late 2010, with the federal government regaining full control of the capital by August 2011. On 20 August 2012 the airport hosted the swearing-in of members of the new Federal Parliament and the appointment of an interim President and Parliamentary Speaker. In 2013 the International Civil Aviation Organization removed the airport from its Zone 5 list of security-risk airports, and in June 2014 the Minister of Air Transportation and Civil Aviation announced further technology upgrades for the field.
As of the mid-2010s the airport's principal users included the Somali-owned carriers Daallo Airlines and Jubba Airways, along with African Express Airways, United Nations charter flights, and Turkish Airlines. Management of the reopened airport was contracted in late 2010 to SKA Air and Logistics, a Dubai-based firm specialising in conflict-zone aviation, for a ten-year period, and a $10 million project was undertaken to raise aircraft parking capacity from 15 to 60. In April 2014 the foundation stone was laid for a national Aviation Training Academy at the airport, and the International Organization for Migration assisted with training of civil aviation, immigration, finance and customs officers and with installation of a personal registration and identification system to strengthen airport security.
