Soto Cano Air Base – is located less than 10 mi (16 km) from Comayagua and 60 mi (97 km) from the Honduras capital, Tegucigalpa. It is commonly known as Palmerola AB and is a Honduran military base 5 mi (8.0 km) to the south of Comayagua in Honduras. The US government once used Palmerola as a base of operations to support their foreign policy objectives in the 1980s. Now it is used as a launching point for counter drug missions in Central America as well as humanitarian aid missions throughout Honduras and Central America.
