Arba Minch Airport

Arba Minch Airport(IATA: AMH, ICAO: HAAM) is an airport serving Arba Minch, a city in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia. The name of the city and airport may also be transliterated as Arba Mintch. The airport is located 5 km (3 miles) northeast of the city centre, near Lake Abaya.

Facilities

The airport sits at an elevation of 1,187 metres (3,894 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 03/21 with an asphalt concrete surface measuring 2,800 by 45 metres (9,186 ft × 148 ft).

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service:

Military use

In October 2011 it was confirmed that the U.S. Seventeenth Air Force was operating RQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles from the airport for reconnaissance over Somalia.Master Sergeant James Fisher, spokesman for the 17th Air Force, said that an unspecified number of Air Force personnel are working at the Ethiopian airfield “to provide operation and technical support for our security assistance programs.” He also said that the drone flights “will continue as long as the government of Ethiopia welcomes our cooperation on these varied security programs.” The United States military has spent millions of dollars upgrading the airbase to handle the Reapers, and is being used to surveil al-Shabab, but will not conduct airstrikes from the base. However, according to OSGEOINT, mapped imagery of the RQ-9 ranges may also suggest mission support to other countries outside of Somalia.