In 1940, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the creation of a naval air base in the town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n
Roosevelt had visited the town in 1919,<\/strong> when he was only an assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, and spent years advocating for the need for such a base. German submarine activity in the Caribbean,<\/strong> even before the US entered World War II, eventually led to the creation of the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station,<\/strong> named in honor of the president. This base was active until 2004, when it became the Jos\u00e9 Aponte de la Torre Airport,<\/strong> commonly known as Ceiba Airport.<\/p>\n On March 30, 2009, American Airlines donated a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82<\/strong> aircraft (MD-82, N428AA, serial number 49340 and built in 1986) to the Miguel Such Higher Professional School<\/strong>. The purpose of this donation was the training of aircraft maintenance technicians. The plane was parked on an abandoned and closed runway of the old base<\/strong>, 18\/36, and unfortunately ended up abandoned until today. A few months ago, the Youtube channel LauWasHere<\/a> published a video in which we see an explorer visiting this plane:<\/p>\n
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