Beledweyne Airport guide

Beledweyne Airport, also called Ugaas Khaliif International Airport, serves Beledweyne, the capital of the Hiran region in central Somalia. Its ICAO code is HCMN. The airport lies about 2 km northeast of the town on the Shabelle River plain, at an elevation of 170 metres.

It has one runway, 04/22, about 2,200 metres long with a gravel and sand surface. The airport is named after Ughaz Khalif, a leader of the Xawaadle clan.

The airport reopened for civilian use in 2012. The Djibouti Defence Forces refurbished the airstrip in February 2015, and the Beledweyne municipality started a project to develop it further in May 2015. Humanitarian flights from Djibouti have used it. In July 2020 a Bluebird Aviation Dash 8 Q400 on a United Nations cargo flight veered off the runway on landing after a donkey crossed it. All three crew survived. The Hiran governor said afterwards that the airport had no firefighting equipment.