been sitting at Dire Dawa for at least 2 years - still there acc. GE, ex CCCP-98119, RA-98119 and 3C-AAG

Another unknown resident at Dire Dawa. One of four Antonov aircraft parked at a remote platform near the runway. There had been earlier reports of an An-26 with 3X-GFC, but the historians at the Soviet Transports database believe this is another airframe. This was based on pictures made during this visit to Dire Dawa. This picture was made from a distance, during boarding of a scheduled flight to Addis Ababa.

Aircraft presumably involved in the local Khat trade. The biggest market for Khat trading is in Awodar, near Harar and Dire Dawa. Close to the Somali border.

Parked near the runway at Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. Reportedly operated by Air Navette.

Parked on a remote platform at the end of runway 33, seen from a Ethiopian DHC-8-400. Had to quickly change my seat when I saw this line up parked along the route to the runway. Suhura Airways was formed in 2009 by Suhura Ismail Khan, Ethiopia's richest woman entrepeneur. The airline was part of her triving khat trading business, which was registered at the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce under the number 571 (seen on the fin of this aircraft).