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Assab International Airport lies on Eritrea's Red Sea coast, serving the port town of Assab in the Southern Red Sea Region. Built in the late 1930s under Italian colonial rule, it remains a dual civil-military airfield with a single very long hard-surfaced runway, though it sees no regular scheduled airline traffic today.
Assab International Airport is a public and military airfield serving Assab, the capital of Eritrea's Southern Red Sea region. It is notable to visiting pilots chiefly for its unusually long runway relative to the modest level of traffic it handles, and for a history that spans Italian colonial military aviation, wartime damage, and more recent use by foreign armed forces.
The airfield sits at Assab on the Red Sea coast in Eritrea's Southern Red Sea Region, at coordinates 13.0667N, 42.6333E and an elevation of 46 feet. No specific airspace classification or surrounding controlled airspace detail is available from the sources at hand.
Assab has a single physical runway, 12/30, oriented northwest-southeast, with a hard surface. Runway 30 measures 11,453 feet and Runway 12 measures 11,452 feet, making it one of the longer runways in the region. There is no ILS.
The tower callsign operates on 118.6 MHz. No published navaids or instrument approach procedures are noted in the available sources.
No published joining or circuit procedures, circuit heights, or noise abatement restrictions are available for this airfield.
No published visual reference points are available for this airfield.
The airfield was established in the late 1930s during the Italian colonial era as a secondary military support airport in the region, and it suffered damage during the Second World War. For many years afterward it was used solely for private and military flights. A weekly civilian service between Assab and Massawa International Airport began in 2017, and by late 2018 Eritrean Airlines was reported to be planning routes to Asmara and Addis Ababa. From September 2015, United Arab Emirates armed forces upgraded the airfield to host military operations supporting their intervention in Yemen, with a partial withdrawal beginning in 2021.
Assab International Airport continues to function as a dual public and military facility. It currently receives no regular scheduled airline flights, with activity limited mainly to private and military operations.
