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Garaad Wiil-Waal Airport
Garaad Wiil-Waal Airport is an airport serving Jijiga, the capital city of the Somali Region in Ethiopia. The airport is located at 9.33222°N, 42.91194°W, which is 12 km east of the city.

Jijiga's original airfield is located northwest of the city center at 9.36056°N, 42.78778°W.

History
The first airfield at Jijiga was constructed in 1929. An airplane crash at Jijiga in July 1930 involved the eighth or ninth aircraft introduced to Ethiopia; it was the second airplane disaster in the country. The plane was a Fiat AS-1 with 85 hp engine, a training airplane bought in 1929. The first tests in air pilot training in Ethiopia were passed at the Garaad Wiil-Waal Airport by Mishka Babitcheff and Asfaw Ali on 1 and 4 September 1930.

By the 1990s, the Garaad Wiil-Waal Airport was one of 10 bases of the Ethiopian Air Force.

Facilities
The airport resides at an elevation of 5413 ft above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 03/21 with an asphalt surface measuring 2400 x.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service: