- Jijiga Airport
Jijiga Airport is an airport in
Jijiga ,Ethiopia airport codes|JIJ|HAJJ. Located at an elevation of 1644 meters above sea level, this airport has one runway. [Information is from the last publicly-accessible version of theDAFIF database.]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 Jijiga airport by Mishka Babitcheff and Asfaw Ali on 1 and 4 September 1930. [http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/j/ORTJI.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 31 May 2008)]By the 1990s, the Jijiga airport was one of 10 bases of the
Ethiopian Air Force .cheduled services
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Ethiopian Airlines (Dire Dawa, Gode)References
External links
* [http://www.ethiopianairlines.com/network/domestic.aspx Ethiopian Airlines Routes]
* [http://www.farecompare.com/flights/Jijiga-JIJ/city.html Jijiga Destinations]
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