Soto Cano Air Base

Soto Cano Air Base / Palmerola International Airport

*Base aérea José Enrique Soto Cano*
Soto Cano Air Base / Palmerola International Airport; Base aérea José Enrique Soto Cano
	IATA: XPL; ICAO: MHPR;
Summary
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
Map
	MHPR Location in Honduras
Runways
	Source: DAFIF

Soto Cano Air Base is an 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) 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.

[1] "Airport information for MHSC". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.

[2] ttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23123.htm ^{[dead link]}

[opq;az-3] "Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras". www.globalsecurity.org.

[4] [1] Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)

[5] "Honduras Becomes U.S. Military Foothold for Central America". NACLA. 4 September 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2018.

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