CHRONOLOGY OF VIOLATIONS OF THE CUBAN AIR SPACE, YEARS 1994-96.

VIOLATION: May 15, 1994. Five aircraft coming from Florida violated Cuban air space in the region between Cardenas, Matanzas province, and El Mariel, Havana City in a space between 15 and 80 miles ashore keeping a distance from the coasts between 1.5 and 5.5 miles offshore. Informed officially to the United States Interests Section by Diplomatic Note 908 of July 21, 1994.
VIOLATION: May 17, 1994. Two CESSNA 337 airplanes, registration numbers N-58BB and N-108l5, were tracked coming from Florida. They violated the national air space of the western region between Cardenas, Matanzas province, and Mariel, Havana Province between 15 and 80 miles ashore keeping a distance of the coasts between 1.5 and 5.5 miles off shore. Informed officially to the United States Interests Section Note 908 of July 21, 1994.
VIOLATION: May 25, 1994. Five aircraft coming from Florida violated national air space in the western region between Cardenas, Matanzas province, and El Mariel, Havana Province between 15 and 80 miles keeping a distance from the coasts between 1.5 and 5.5 miles ashore. Informed officially to the United States Interests Section by Diplomatic Note 908 of July 21, 1994.
VIOLATION: May 29, 1994. Five aircraft coming from Florida violated the national airspace in the western region between Cardenas, Matanzas province, El Mariel, Havana province, between 10 and 80 miles ashore, keeping the distance from the coasts between 1,5 and 5,5 miles ashore. Informed officially to the North American Interest Section by Diplomatic Note 908 of July 21, 1994.
VIOLATION: On July 10, 1994, at 10 a.m., a violation of air space was detected. Aircraft with U.S. registration N-2506 were coming from the U.S. north of Guanabo in Havana province, which violated Cuban air space by 18 Km at a depth of 3 Km leaving the national air space at the north of Havana city at 10:30 a.m.
VIOLATION: On November 10, 1994, at 13:13 two C-337 airplanes that took off at 12:40 hours from the Guantanamo Naval Base violated Cuban airspace to the north of the western region flying over the lighthouse of Punta Maisi. In this flight, the planes threw 200 leaflets against the Cuba's constitutional government. Informed officially to the United States Interests Section by Diplomatic Note 1443 of November 15, 1994.
VIOLATION: April 4, 1995. Between 10:14 and 10:57 local hours a light aircraft violated the national airspace to the north of the western region between Santa Fe and Guanabo, Havana City at a longitude of 5 miles and keeping distances of the Cuban coasts that oscillated between 5 and 10 miles. Informed officially to the United States Interests Section by Diplomatic Note 694 of May 25, 1995.
VIOLATION: On July 13, 1995, four aircraft coming from the United States waters - registration numbers N-108lS, N-2506, N-548SS and N-312MX - entered Cuban territorial waters north of Havana City in a prohibited zone and flew over Havana City at a low height in a dangerous and neglectful way. Informed to the United States Interests Section by Diplomatic Note 1100 of August 21,1995 in which is enclosed a copy of the letter sent by the Aeronautical Institute (IACC) to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
VIOLATION: On January 9 and 13, 1996, the Cuban authorities detected 2 light airplanes coming from Opalocka airport in Florida that flew over the territory of the province of Havana and threw subversive propaganda that urged the overthrow of Cuba's government. Officially informed to the United States Interests Section by Diplomatic note 45 of January 15, 1996.

Because of the repeated violations of Cuban air space, the government have been forced to temporarily close the Giron international corridor for civil aircraft, and adopt limitations on the entrance and exit of the international airport of Varadero. On several occasions, the flights over the Cuban territory have been in dangerous zones activated by Cuban authorities and according to the international regulations for the carrying out of military training with the risk of producing accidents of incalculable consequences. This information was given to the United States Interests Section by Diplomatic Note 908 of July 21, 1994.

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