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Coordinates: 14°08′13″N 038°46′34″E / 14.13694°N 38.77611°E

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Axum Emperor Yohannes IV Airport

ኣኽሱም ዮሃንስ ራብዓይ መዕረፍ ነፈርቲ

IATA: AXU
ICAO: HAAX

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority

Operator

Ethiopian Airports Enterprise

Serves

Axum, Ethiopia

Elevation AMSL

2,108 m / 6,916 ft

Coordinates

14°08′13″N 038°46′34″E / 14.13694°N 38.77611°E

Map

HAAX

Location in Ethiopia (Tigray region in red)

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
16/34	2,400	7,874	Asphalt concrete

Sources:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Axum Airport (Tigrinya: ኣኽሱም ዮሃንስ ራብዓይ መዕረፍ ነፈርቲ) (IATA: AXU, ICAO: HAAX), also known as Emperor Yohannes IV Airport,^[1] is a public airport serving Axum,^[2] a city in the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The name of the city and airport may also be transliterated as Aksum. The facility is located 5.5 km (3.4 miles) to the east of the city.^[1]

The airport is named after Yohannes IV, the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1872 to 1889.

The airport was heavily damaged by Tigray People's Liberation Front forces during the Tigray conflict in November 2020.^[4]

Facilities

Axum Airport lies at an elevation of 2,108 metres (6,916 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34, with an asphalt concrete surface measuring 2,400 by 45 metres (7,874 ft × 148 ft).^[1] It is capable of receiving very large aircraft, such as the Antonov 124, which brought the Axum Obelisk back from Italy in 2005.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Ethiopian Airlines^[5]	Addis Ababa, Gondar, Lalibela, Mek'ele

Incidents

On 2 May 1988, a Douglas C-47A ET-AGT of Ethiopian Airlines was destroyed on the ground in an attack on the airport by Ethiopian Air Force MiG-23s during the Ethiopian Civil War.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Axum Emperor Yohanes IV Airport". Ethiopian Airports Enterprise. Archived from the original on 29 April 2012.
^ ^a ^b Airport information for HAAX^[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
^ Airport information for AXU at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
^ "Tigray crisis: How the Ethiopian army and TPLF clashed over an airport". BBC News. 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
^ "OAG Internet Timetable". OAG Aviation Worldwide Ltd. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
^ "ET-AGT Criminal Occurrence description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 July 2010.

External links

Media related to Axum Airport at Wikimedia Commons

Accident history for AXU at Aviation Safety Network

v t e Main airports in Ethiopia
International	Addis Ababa Dire Dawa
Domestic	Arba Minch Asosa Awasa Axum Bahir Dar Combolcha Gambela Gode Gondar Humera Jijiga Jimma Kabri Dar Lalibela Mek'ele Robe Semera Shire
Military	Lideta Harar Neghelle

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