Aden International Airport

Built in the period when Aden was administered as part of British India, RAF Khormaksar was located just inland of the north eastern edge of the large bay on which Aden stands and on the southern rim of the Crater area.

It was significantly improved immediately after WWII, partly because of its strategic position near the mouth of the Red Sea (and thus the southern approaches to the Suez Canal) and as a staging post for RAF Transport Command on its famous Changi Slip route to Singapore and the Far East.  It was also home to RAF 131 MU (a maintenance and storage unit) between Mar 1942 and 1966. RAF Khormaksar was a key base from Dec 1963 after the Aden State of Emergency had been declared until the RAF station closed and the British withdrawal, covered by the Royal Marines, in Nov 1967.

With the unification of South Yemen (when it had the ICAO code ODAA) and the Peoples Republic of North Yemen in May 1990, the airport took on a new economic importance and it has been developed further into Aden International Airport.