<Tr> <Td> 18 / 36 CLOSED indef . </Td> <Td> 5,800 </Td> <Td> 100 </Td> <Td> Concrete </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Helipad </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Concrete </Td> </Tr> <P> Roosevelt Roads Naval Station is a former United States Navy base in the town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico . The site is run today as José Aponte de la Torre Airport, a public use airport . </P> <P> In 1919, the future U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, toured Puerto Rico, visiting Ceiba . When he returned to Washington, D.C., he expressed a liking for the terrain where the base now is . This was during the World War I era, and the United States could benefit from an air field in Ceiba . While Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, its territorial rights belong to the United States, which made it perfectly feasible, and ideal, for the American government to build an airplane base in Ceiba . </P>

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