MENA NOIR: Aircraft pilot Barry Seal, a Baton Rouge native who smuggled drugs into the U.S. for the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, used this airport in Mena, Arkansas, as his hub, according to several investigative reporters.
Seal ultimately became a federal informant and was assassinated by Colombian hitman in 1986. A federal judge had sentenced Seal to stay for several months in an unguarded Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge. That's where Seal was shot to death while in his car.
A movie titled "Mena," starring Tom Cruise as Seal, is set to be released in early 2017.
Using my iPhone, I shot this video of the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport on July 22, 2016.
