| Gerad Wilwal Airport | |
| Iata: | JIJ |
| Icao: | HAJJ |
| Type: | Public |
| Operator: | Ethiopian Airports Enterprise |
| City-Served: | Jijiga, Ethiopia |
| Elevation-F: | 5937 |
| Coordinates: | 9.3308°N 42.9111°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Ethiopia |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ethiopia (Somali region in red) |
| Pushpin Image: | Somali in Ethiopia.svg |
| Pushpin Label: | HAJJ |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Mark: | Steel_pog.svg |
| Pushpin Marksize: | 11 |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 03/21 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2,500 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Footnotes: | Source:, STV |
Gerad Wilwal Airport (also known as Garaad Wiil-Waal Airport) is a public airport serving Jijiga, the capital city of the Somali Region in eastern Ethiopia. The airport is located at 9.3322°N 42.9119°W, which is 12km (07miles) east of the city.[1] It is named after seventeenth-century jigjiga ruler Garad Wiil-Waal.[2]
Jijiga's original airfield is located northwest of the city center at 9.3606°N 42.7878°W.
The first airfield at Jijiga was constructed in 1929. An airplane crash at Jijiga in July 1930 involved the eighth or ninth aircraft introduced to Ethiopia; it was the second airplane disaster in the country. The plane was a Fiat AS-1 with 85 hp engine, a training airplane bought in 1929. The first tests in air pilot training in Ethiopia were passed at the Garad Wilwal Airport by Mishka Babitcheff and Asfaw Ali on 1 and 4 September 1930.[3]
By the 1990s, the Garad Wilwal Airport was one of 10 bases of the Ethiopian Air Force.[3]
The airport resides at an elevation of 5937feet above mean sea level. The airport's only runway, designated 03/21, has an asphalt surface and measures 2400mx45mm (7,900feetx148feetm).[1]