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The event was used by city planners to raise funds for a proposed Wichita Municipal Airport. The event was a success and ground-breaking ceremonies for the airport were held on 28 June 1929. In August 1941, the Kansas National Guard 127th Observation Squadron was activated as the first military unit assigned to the Wichita airport. The unit's ...
Public hearings began to consider locating an Air Force base near the Wichita Boeing facilities, and the city of Wichita received $9.4 million to build a new municipal airfield. On May 31, 1951, the USAF took title to the airport. Civil and military flights shared the airport until the city completed a new airport in October 1954.
Wichita Army Airfield (now McConnell Air Force Base) is located at the site of Wichita's original municipal airport, which shared a runway with the Boeing Aircraft Wichita facility. Boeing produced B-29 Superfortresses at Wichita and the USAAF Air Materiel Command took over control of the airport in 1942 to accept, service and coordinate the ...
The crew "initiated a go-around at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in response to an onboard alert that a military helicopter was nearby," a Federal Aviation Administration told USA ...
After sitting at bombing range at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake for 42 years, Doc was recovered in 1998 by a team led by Tony Mazzolini. [1] The group Doc's Friends was started in 2013 to support the effort and, following 3 years of work, the airplane flew again in 2016.
Kansas lawmakers, including GOP Sen. Jerry Moran, had lobbied American Airlines to add the nonstop flight between Wichita and DCA, which has been in existence for about a year. Moran said he had ...
An American Airlines flight that originated in Wichita crashed just miles short of its destination at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., after it collided with a military helicopter.
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.