Coastguard Air Station HATO
Located at the west side of Hato Airport there is a small hangar for the 2 Dash-8 patrol aircraft of the Coast Guard Netherlands Antilles & Aruba. This was until 2007 a naval airbase of the Royal Netherlands Navy who operated the base for 55 years. With a wide variety of aircraft in the past years Fireflies, Avengers, Trackers, Neptunes, Fokker F-27's, PC-3 Orions, Fokker F-60's and several helicopters. After the political decision to sell all Orions the airbase wasn't needed anymore.
And west of the air station the US Air force operate a Forward Operating Base (FOB) mostly operate AWAC's and transport aircraft. Until 1999 the US Air force operated a small amount of F-16's from the FOB.
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