Somali Air Force
Air warfare branch of the Somali Armed Forces
Somali Air Force
The Somali Air Force (SAF; Somali: Ciidanka Cirka Soomaaliyeed, Osmanya: ππππππππ πππππ πππππππππ, CCS; Arabic: Ψ§ΩΩΩΨ§Ψͺ Ψ§ΩΨ¬ΩΩΨ© Ψ§ΩΨ΅ΩΩ Ψ§ΩΩΨ©, Al-QΕ«wΔt al-GawwΔ«yΓ€ as-αΉ’Ε«mΔlΔ«yΓ€) is the air force of Somalia. Called the Somali Aeronautical Corps (SAC) during its pre-independence period (1954β1960), it was renamed as Somali Air Force (SAF) after Somalia gained independence in 1960. Ali Matan Hashi, Somalia's first pilot and person principally responsible for organizing the SAF, was its founder and served as its the country's first air chief. At one point, the Somali Air Force had the strongest airstrike capability in the Horn of Africa. But by the time President Siad Barre fled Mogadishu in 1991, it had completely collapsed. The SAF headquarters was technically reopened in 2015 and from 2023 new helicopters arrived. It is now carrying out operations against Al-Shabaab, mostly supporting ground forces.
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