An item of historical interest from today's Sosua News:
In 1980 the airport Gregorio Luper?n between Sos?a and Puerto Plata opened. From that point on the north coast was unlocked for mass tourism. But Sos?a previously was not deprived of an airport. Where now the baseball field is across from the entrance of Casa Marina Resort, landed in the late 50s of the last century, occasionally small planes and helicopters. It's Pepper Papernik who still remembers that when he was a little boy a small plane landed on their playing field in the 50's. That was an exciting event for everyone. Peter Papernik wrote: 'It's still vivid in my mind that a plane landed on the baseball field. I was 9 or 10 years and I ran together with friends to the newly-landed airplane
When we arrived the pilot was talking to a few adults. The big excitement was that we could make a flight over Sos?a. An experience as exciting and amazing stays in your mind forever'. With the construction of the baseball field the airport disappeared. But there is still a helicopter landing site in Sos?a. Opposite the restaurant Simply Red (now closed) in Calle Alejo Martinez is an open field. Here the Patronales festivals are celebrated, but it is still used as a helicopter landing pad. Among others, Antonio Imbert Barrera, the hero of Sos?a who put an end to the dictatorship of Trujillo on May 30, 1961, used it regularly for landing his helicopter flights.
In 1980 the airport Gregorio Luper?n between Sos?a and Puerto Plata opened. From that point on the north coast was unlocked for mass tourism. But Sos?a previously was not deprived of an airport. Where now the baseball field is across from the entrance of Casa Marina Resort, landed in the late 50s of the last century, occasionally small planes and helicopters. It's Pepper Papernik who still remembers that when he was a little boy a small plane landed on their playing field in the 50's. That was an exciting event for everyone. Peter Papernik wrote: 'It's still vivid in my mind that a plane landed on the baseball field. I was 9 or 10 years and I ran together with friends to the newly-landed airplane
When we arrived the pilot was talking to a few adults. The big excitement was that we could make a flight over Sos?a. An experience as exciting and amazing stays in your mind forever'. With the construction of the baseball field the airport disappeared. But there is still a helicopter landing site in Sos?a. Opposite the restaurant Simply Red (now closed) in Calle Alejo Martinez is an open field. Here the Patronales festivals are celebrated, but it is still used as a helicopter landing pad. Among others, Antonio Imbert Barrera, the hero of Sos?a who put an end to the dictatorship of Trujillo on May 30, 1961, used it regularly for landing his helicopter flights.