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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.
Wichita's park board quickly acquired 1,923 acres (778 ha) of land in southwest Wichita, and the construction of a new "Wichita Municipal Airport" took about three and a half years. The airport opened to general aviation traffic in 1953, and airline flights moved to the new airport on April 1, 1954.
For the 12-month period ending May 13, 2008, the airport had 32,700 aircraft operations, an average of 89 per day: 86% general aviation and 14% military. At that time there were 77 aircraft based at this airport: 27% single- engine , 38% multi-engine, 13% jet and 22% military . [ 1 ]
Westport Airport (FAA LID: 71K) is a privately owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. It is in the Class C airspace of neighboring Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. [1] [2] [5]
Air Midwest, Inc., was a Federal Aviation Administration Part 121 certificated air carrier that operated under air carrier certificate number AMWA510A issued on May 15, 1965. It was headquartered in Wichita , Kansas , [ 1 ] United States , and from 1991 was a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group .
Wichita plant as seen in 2005, just before Spirit Aerosystems took control. Spirit was originally formed as Mid-Western Aircraft Systems when Boeing sold its Wichita factory along with facilities in Tulsa and McAlester to the investment firm Onex Corporation in June 2005 for US$900 million in cash and the assumption of $300 million in debt, a total of $1.2 billion in enterprise value.
Gordon’s Red Bird is not related to Dr. Redbird’s Medicinal Inn, a famous Wichita sandwich restaurant that had a devoted following from the early 1970s through the mid 1980s.
The pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft was 53-year-old Mark Goldstein, a retired Air Traffic Controller from Wichita who held a valid Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) second-class medical certificate. [5] Investigators determined he had at least 3,139 total flight hours, of which 2,843 were in multiengine airplanes. [1]