Coco Solo was a United States Navy submarine base and naval air station near the Panama Canal, active from 1918 to the 1960s.

United States Senator John McCain was born in 1936 at a small Navy hospital,[2][3] at Coco Solo Naval Air Station.

[6] On December 7, 1941, three V-class submarines (Barracuda, Bass and Bonita) were stationed at Coco Solo.

Until the mid-1990s, the town site of Coco Solo was used by the civilian employees of the Panama Canal as a residential area.

After the turnover of the Panama Canal to Panamanians in 1999, US military activity ceased at both Coco Solo and Galeta Island.