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The airport property was in an unincorporated area of Platte County until the small town of Platte City, Missouri, annexed the airport during construction. Kansas City eventually annexed the airport. Kivett and Myers designed the terminals and control tower; it was dedicated on October 23, 1972, by U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew.
Reliever airports: Kansas City: MKC: MKC KMKC Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport (Kansas City Downtown) R 3,611 Lee's Summit: LXT: KLXT Lee's Summit Municipal Airport: R 17 St. Charles: SET: KSET St. Charles County Smartt Airport (Smartt Field) R 0 St. Louis: 1H0: Creve Coeur Airport: R 2 St. Louis: SUS: SUS KSUS Spirit of St. Louis Airport: R ...
The airport had limited area for expansion (Fairfax Airport across the Missouri River in Kansas City, Kansas, covered a larger area). Airplanes had to avoid the 200-foot (60 m) Quality Hill and the Downtown Kansas City skyline south of the south end of the main runway. In the early 1960s, an FAA memo called it "the most dangerous major airport ...
This is a list of airports in Kansas (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
On October 1, 2001, a holding company, Great Plains Energy Incorporated, was established in Kansas City, Missouri that owned electric utility Kansas City Power and Light Company and Strategic Energy, LLC, an energy management company. It acquired Aquila, Inc. in July, 2008. [4] In 2014, it ranked number 855 on the Fortune 1000 list. [5]
The new facility, which has 40 gates and will replace the airport’s old three-terminal setup, has already seen some visitors recently through a soft opening of the 1.1 million-square-foot space.
In just days, Kansas City will have a new gateway to the metro area with the opening of the new $1.5 billion single terminal at Kansas City International Airport.
The art deco Kansas City Power and Light Building was the former headquarters of the company and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi until 1942, tallest in Missouri until 1976 and tallest in Kansas City until 1986 and is the namesake of the downtown Kansas City Power & Light District Barack Obama in front a KCP&L truck on July 8, 2010, at the Smith Electric Vehicles plant at ...