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Soto Cano Air Base / Palmerola International Airport Base aérea José Enrique Soto Cano | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||
| Serves | Comayagua / Tegucigalpa | ||||||||||
| Location | Comayagua, Honduras | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 628 m / 2,060 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 14°22′57″N 087°37′16″W / 14.38250°N 87.62111°W | ||||||||||
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Soto Cano Air Base is a Honduran military base 5 mi (8.0 km) to the south of Comayagua in Honduras. It houses 1,200–1,500 U.S. troops and is also used by the Honduran Air Force academy.[2][3] The airbase became operational in 1940, changing the old location of the Honduras Air Force Academy in Toncontin, Tegucigalpa to Palmerola.[4] It serves as one of the important bases to the US Military's presence in Central America.[5]
The U.S. government once used Palmerola (as previously known) as a base of operations to support its foreign policy objectives in the 1980s. Now the U.S. military uses Soto Cano as a launching point for humanitarian aid missions throughout Honduras and Central America.[3]
In addition to the Honduran Air Force Academy, the U.S. military's Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-B) is headquartered at Soto Cano.[3]
- ^ "Airport information for MHSC". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05. Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23123.htm [dead link]
- ^ a b c "Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras". www.globalsecurity.org.
- ^ [1] Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)
- ^ "Honduras Becomes U.S. Military Foothold for Central America". NACLA. 4 September 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2018.