Cibao Airport for private aviation

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The Cibao Airport, a private venture, will be the port of entry for a new plan to attract private aircraft tourism to the Dominican Republic. There is potential for as many as 50,000 small craft to use the airport as their port of entry. Once in the Dominican Republic, private planes can take off for any of the tourist areas throughout the country: Puerto Plata, Portillo (near Las Terrenas, Samana), Punta Cana, La Romana or Santo Domingo, among others. At least this is what James Parker, the main promoter of this type of tourism predicts will happen. Parker arrived in Santiago aboard his Pilatus 12, piloted by Al Simmons and accompanied by Mike Trim. Trim, an official with the Dominican Airport Authority, is working together with Parker to set up the Dominican pavilion at the huge Oshkosh, Wisconsin Fly-in on 27 July. The Oshkosh event is probably the largest private aviation gathering in the world with 700,000 visitors each year and thousands of small and large aircraft on the ground. A Presidential Decree (169-08) exonerates private planes from paying government landing fees at any of the international airports. After a tour of the airport, Parker praised the conditions that he found at airports around the country and told reporters from El Caribe that he was preparing a Fly-in from Florida with 45 aircraft.

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