What’s the future for a cargo plane after it was shot down? Well, it can start a bar and restaurant business. Not bad. Don’t take it as a joke. Fairchild C-123 relates its name with one of the biggest scandals of USA administration in the mid 1980’s. That involved the Reagan Administration’s bizarre of network for arms sales to Iran. This cargo plane was shot down on October 5, 1986, in Nicaragua by government forces while delivering supplies to the Nicaraguan Contras. Eugene Hasenfus was the only crash surviving CIA agent who parachuted safely and was captured by Sandinista forces. His capture and detention helped uncover and publicize the Iran-Contra Affair. A black book of phone numbers in the wreckage tied the plane to an operation run out of Ilopango airbase in El Salvador, supported by anti-Castro exile Felix Rodriguez. Fairchild wreckage was acquired by Costa Rican businessman for $ 6,000 USD, cut in pieces and transported by sea to Quepos whereas assembled at the edge of the cliff, which overlooks magnifient panorama of Manuel Antonio bays. This is its resting place ever since... They serve great cocktails overthere and terrific seafood soup, and my favorite was "Sex on the beach " !