| Axum Emperor Yohannes IV Airport | |
| Nativename: | ኣኽሱም ዮሃንስ ራብዓይ መዕረፍ ነፈርቲ |
| Iata: | AXU |
| Icao: | HAAX |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner: | Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority |
| Operator: | Ethiopian Airports Enterprise |
| City-Served: | Axum, Ethiopia |
| Metric-Elev: | y |
| Elevation-M: | 2,108 |
| Coordinates: | 14.1369°N 38.7761°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Ethiopia |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ethiopia (Tigray region in red) |
| Pushpin Image: | Tigray in Ethiopia.svg |
| Pushpin Label: | HAAX |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Mark: | Steel_pog.svg |
| Pushpin Marksize: | 11 |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 16/34 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2,400 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt concrete |
| Footnotes: | Sources:[1] |
Axum Airport (Tigrinya: ኣኽሱም ዮሃንስ ራብዓይ መዕረፍ ነፈርቲ), also known as Emperor Yohannes IV Airport, is a public airport serving Axum, 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 5.5km (03.4miles) to the east of the city.[2]
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.[3]
Axum Airport lies at an elevation of 2108m (6,916feet) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34, with an asphalt concrete surface measuring 2400mx45mm (7,900feetx148feetm). It is capable of receiving very large aircraft, such as the Antonov 124, which brought the Axum Obelisk back from Italy in 2005.
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.[4]