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Honduras was the first Central American country that had the privilege to meet a plane. Since the establishment of the Spanish miners in Tegucigalpa Toncontín Plains are mentioned by historians. Because the Indians who lived across the Rio Grande in what they called Comayagüela, identified the site with the original Aztec word "Tocotín" corresponding to a sacred dance and ritual of the natives of the Yucatan area.

At that time, in the plains of Toncontín, was the "House of Pleasure" where today is located the headquarters of the Honduran Air Force, an official residence used by the presidents of the republic at that time as a relaxing place because the villa was on the outskirts of the city.

In Toncontín the history of military aviation and trade for Honduras begins to be written. The first aerial device known, to have sailed Honduran’s skies, was a light Bristol aircraft, brought to the country in 1921. The aircraft was obtained from the British Air Force and manned by Ivan Lamb English, veteran of the First World War. By 1922 Mr. Luis Stornaiola Honduras brought to Honduras seven aircraft and hired an aviator instructor from the British Army in order to establish the first domestic airmail service.

In 1935, Pan American Company operated the aviation in the country and with the intention of operating in Tegucigalpa asks government for permission to build a terminal building for its offices and facilities, operations that began that year. The one story terminal was built with stone blocks taken from the quarries of Tegucigalpa and was located South East of the existing runway. A peculiar detail is that the arrival of flights at the airport were announced by ringing a loud bell, the company enjoyed the great monopoly in Latin America until after the fifties.

The movement of domestic and international passengers grew with the founding in 1945 of SAHSA Company operating DC-3 aircrafts and the arrival of Pan American World Airways four-engine aircraft thereby prompting the government to build a modern terminal. The new terminal was completed in late 1948 and the building inaugurated on January 1, 1949 with a gala dance acts of the new president Dr. Juan Manuel Galvez Durón.

Nearly ninety years have passed since the first BRISTOL arrived in the capital of the Republic and although attempts have been close to Toncontín Airport, the plain south of the city remains the capital's airport where American Airlines, Taca, Copa Airlines, Continental and national companies such as CM Airlines, Sosa, Islana, and Easy Sky mobilize thousands of passengers and tons of cargo.