Jaime González Airport


Jaime González Airport is an international airport that serves Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba, and capital of the province of Cienfuegos.

Facilities

The airport is at an elevation of above mean sea level; it has one runway designated 02/20 with an asphalt surface measuring.

Cienfuegos Air Base

The airport is an inactive Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces air base:
  • 3684 Helicopter Regiment - Mil Mi-8TB transport helicopters, Mil Mi-24D attack/transport helicopter and Mil Mi-35 helicopter gunship/transport
During the war the base was set up to use a non-descript number for postal operations. They used the Fleet Post Office, Atlantic located in New York, New York with the address: 317 FPO NY. The US Navy code word for Cienfuegos during the war was ODOP.