HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 7 (acn) The La Periquera Museum in the eastern city of Holguin is home to the exhibition called Bajo el Cielo de Holguin (Under the Skies of Holguin), aimed at studying the panorama of the history of civil aviation in the province about to celebrate its 85 anniversary.
Yudenis Jimenez, air traffic controller in the Frank Pais International Airport and author of the exhibition told AIN News Agency that it responds to an exhaustive research process that has lasted over five years for a book of the same name of the exhibition ready to be published.
She pointed out that except for the Calixto Garcia municipality, the rest of the areas in Holguin had some historic areas like runways for private aircrafts to the inclusion of Holguin as one of the cities with intermediate scales in the first Habana-Santiago de Cuba flights held on October 39th, 1930 with its first airport located in the current Peralta neighborhood.
The researcher mentioned Antilla as one of the most important communities with two terminals, one for national flights and the other for international over water which according to the press at the time, 8 hydro aircrafts landed on a weekly basis.
The area includes some 40 combines scale models and 150 photographs of the different terminals, renowned figures that has visited the territory like Eduardo Chibas, founder of the Orthodox Party and pilots among them Teresita del Rey Baster, the first Cuban that graduated in the Rancho Boyeros Aviation School and pioneer in Latin America to work as air traffic controller.
According to the researcher, having a museum to display the heritage permanently in Holguin constitutes a desire of all as the city of Holguin has peculiar incidents in the history of the country.
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