María Montez International Airport () is an international airport north of the Caribbean port city of Barahona, in the Barahona Province of the Dominican Republic. It is named after the late film star Maria Montez, who was born in the province of Barahona. The airport is on the coast, and approach from and departure toward the east each involve altitude changes over water. The Barahona VOR/DME (Ident: BHO) and Barahona non-directional beacon (Ident: BHN) are located on the field. It has the capacity to receive Jumbo 747, DC-10 and other wide-bodied aircraft. It has a large parking lot for more than a hundred vehicles. Until November 1998 in this one labored about 100 employees. Later, from 1999 to 2017, the number of employees is lower, this is attributed to the reduction of the operations that this terminal has at the moment. History Maria Montez Airport was officially inaugurated on Saturday, April 27, 1996, in a ceremony presided over by President Joaquín Balaguer. It was built at a cost of almost five hundred million pesos. In the year 2010 as consequences of the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti on January 12, about 70 members of the 61 The fifth contingency Response Wing of the United States Army was deployed in the Dominican Republic with the support of Operation Unified Response. Due to the influx of overwhelming air traffic at the Port-au-Prince International Airport, Haiti, additional locations were identified at the San Isidro Air Base and Maria Montez International Airport, as delivery staging areas for the provision of humanitarian aid. In 2011, with an investment of $30 million peso RD, the runway was restored and takeoff of that air station, which has a dimension of 3.000 meters, a platform for aircraft parking 40.000 square meters, and a taxiway of 300 meters that, where they facilitate the operations of large aircraft. In the month of July 2012, the operations of the International Company organization Terpel were initiated as an aviation fuel supplier for the airport. In 2016, Aerodom is the operator of this terminal who performs efficiently all the tasks of maintenance of this airport with around 22 employees. The IDAC who manages the operations in the airspace, with approximately 40 employees, 10 CTA and 3 of CNS who are in charge of radio communications, where Mr. Jesús Padilla stood out for his help and contributions to that department, 4 FIS and 3