- Bardera Airport
Infobox Airport
name = Bardera Airport
IATA = BSY
ICAO = HCMD
type = Public
owner =
operator =
city-served =Bardera ,Somalia
location =
elevation-f = 4,200
elevation-m = 1,260
coordinates = coord|02|20|10|N|42|18|28|E|type:airport
website =
r1-number = 15/33
r1-length-f = 4,017
r1-length-m = 1,300
r1-surface = Sand
footnotes =Bardera Airport airport codes|BSY|HCMD is located northeast of the city of
Bardera , inGedo ,Somalia . The airport currently has no regularly scheduled flights. As part of the UN mission to Somalia,United States corps of engineers conducted thorough measurements and surface hardening of the runway during theUN 's intervention in the civil war inSomalia during 1993-1994.There are proposals to make the airport viable for regularly scheduled flights or at least able to find business people who will take advantage of cargo transportation opportunities. Diaspora friends of Bardera city are planning flights from Bardera destined to
Mecca for theHajj season of 2008.As people see the economic potential of Bardera District and
Gedo region as a whole, there are also plans to link the city of Bardera toKismayo andDubai . Currently the only flights in and out of Bardera Airport are small planes of chartered flights from Nairobi.References
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* [http://www.logcluster.org/som/air-transport/airfield-specifications]
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