Preston Airport

Political and economic reasons. The airport was a private facility built for a specific corporate purpose. With the nationalization of the United Fruit Company's holdings, the private airfield lost its function. The Cuban state had no strategic or economic need for this small, local airstrip, especially with larger, state-run airports in the region, leading to its abandonment.

The airport is completely abandoned and in a state of ruin. Satellite imagery of the coordinates reveals a clearly visible but severely deteriorated asphalt runway. The surface is cracked, heavily overgrown with grass and vegetation, and is bisected at its southern end by a local road. There are no extant airport buildings such as a terminal or hangars. The land has been partially reclaimed by nature and is surrounded by agricultural fields.

Preston Airport was a private airfield constructed and operated by the United Fruit Company to support its vast sugar enterprise, centered on the 'Central Preston' sugar mill. Its primary role was to facilitate corporate travel, transporting executives, engineers, and other important personnel to and from the remote location, likely connecting to Florida and other company sites in the Caribbean. It was an integral part of the self-contained infrastructure (which also included railways and a port) built by the American company and stands as a historical artifact of the significant US corporate presence in pre-revolutionary Cuba. It did not serve as a public or commercial passenger airport.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Preston Airport. Its revival is considered highly improbable due to several factors: its advanced state of decay would require a complete reconstruction, its small size limits its potential use, and its close proximity (approximately 55 km) to the major Frank País International Airport (HOG) in Holguín makes it logistically and economically redundant.