Wadi Halfa
I can confirm that there was a paved runway at Wadi Halfa in February1958.
I was travelling with my parents from Nairobi to LHR on home leave on a Clan Hunting Viscount - how I wish I had recorded the planes registration! I have all my other flights ( 1,392 and counting ) recorded with nearly all plane registration numbers. My first flight being on a Shorts Solent G-AKNO from Southampton to Lake Naivasha in 1949.
On that Viscount service we left Wilson Aerodrome Nairobi early on a Sunday morning and routed via Entebbe to Wadi Halfa. We had an overnight stop at Wadi Halfa and were taken by coach to a hotel on the banks of the Nile.
Anyone know the name of the hotel ? Does it still exist or was it flooded ?
We were up early the next morning for a 0700 departure to Heathrow, where we arrived in the late afternoon - typical London winters evening. There was smog and the smell of soot every where, most unusual and unpleasant to someone who had lived in the Tropics for the past 9 years !