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The museum announced in March, 2011 that it had teamed up with Kansas City's Roasterie Coffee Shop, with the Roasterie brand being known as "The Official Coffee of the National Airline History Museum" and carrying an image of the museum's DC-3 on its coffee products. [citation needed]
[4]: 7 In 1923 the Air Service's southern division of the Model Airway used an airfield in the city for an Army air route to Kelly Field, Texas; and by the end of 1925, the "403th Pursuit Squadron" was assigned to a Kansas City facility (the Air Service leased the land for the airdrome in Kansas City, Missouri, with steel hangars for $1/year ...
This list of museums in Kansas City, Missouri encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including non-profit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Sweeney Airport was named in 1925, and the 403 Pursuit Squadron was assigned to Kansas City at the end of 1925. [5] The "Fairfax plat" map with the airport was drawn on April 1, 1925, as an area "of 1,373.07 acres" outside the city limits divided as follows: "The Kansas City Industrial Land Company owned 1,122.85 acres; the Union Pacific Railroad Company owned 32.80 acres; eight private owners ...
Between 1983 and 1997 the city of Kansas City lost $18 million operating Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport and in 1998, the Federal Aviation Administration approved a plan to close the airport. In 2001 the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision to close the airport in a suit brought by Friends of Richards-Gebaur Airport of ...
Aug. 23—The painstaking restoration of the world's only B-17 "D" in a hangar on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Area B exemplifies the kind of work to which National Museum of the U.S. Air ...
Airline History Museum, Kansas City; Freedom of Flight Museum, Webb City [62] Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, St. Louis; James S. McDonnell Prologue Room, St. Louis [63] National Museum of Transportation, St. Louis; Nicholas-Beazley Aviation Museum, Marshall [64] TWA Museum, Kansas City, Missouri [65]
The front cover of the Kansas City Star newspaper, engraved on a copper plate, is displayed on stage during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at the National WWI Museum and ...