El Avion, the U.S. cargo airplane sent to Costa Rica by the Reagan administration to supply arms to the Nicaraguan Contras. After its sister plane was shot down over Nicaragua and its CIA pilot captured, the Reagan administration abandoned the cargo plane idea and left the plane in the San Jose international airport - until 2000 when some entrepreneurs moved it to the coast and made it into an expensive restaurant. | Next | C. America 2005 Gallery Home | Home