No, this is not the Homa Bay County Airport.

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The international airport of Homa Bay County

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. A reverse search reveals that the footage of the plane, a Douglas Commercial model number 6 (DC-6), was first uploaded on Mr de Beer’s YouTube account on December 6, 2010, when it arrived at her new home just north of Pretoria, South Africa.

We also discovered information on the DC-6, which was shared on the website of The Douglas DC-6 Association of South Africa, stating that the plane departed Swartkop Air Force base on December 4, 2010 at 07:13 and landed at 07:50 in Pretoria, and is owned by Witold Walus and Willie Muntingh of Drakensberg Truck Manufacturers.

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No, this is not the Homa Bay County Airport.

The airplane landing on a dirt runway is not from Homa Bay, but rather a Douglas Commercial model number 6 (DC-6) being ferried to her new home north of Pretoria, South Africa, in December 2010.

DC-6 had been under refurbishment in preparation for a ferry flight since November 2008.

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