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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.
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 June 30, 2019, the airport had 14,050 aircraft operations, an average of 38 per day: 93% general aviation, 5% military and 2% air taxi. In January 2024, there were 67 aircraft based at this airport: 38 single-engine, 5 multi-engine and 24 jet .
Air Midwest was incorporated in Wichita, Kansas, on May 7, 1965 by Gary Adamson as Aviation Services Inc. [2] Using a single Cessna 206 , Adamson transported human remains for area mortuaries. Later, Aviation Services held out for charter and on April 17, 1967 began scheduled service flying between Wichita and Salina .
Wichita's roots in aviation manufacturing travel as far back as the 1920s. Beginning with aviation legends like Clyde Cessna and Walter Beech, Wichita was garnered with its new name, "the air ...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — When American Eagle Flight 5342 took off from Wichita, the Midwest city with a proud aviation history was glowing from a big moment. It had just hosted the next generation of Olympic hopefuls at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the kind of major sporting event that leaders of the largest city in Kansas had ...
In 2012 the MTAA Board of Directors renamed the facility to Topeka Regional Airport and Business Center, maintaining the name of the airfield as Forbes Field. Topeka Regional Airport is currently the home of the Kansas Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing and the 1st Battalion, 108th Aviation Regiment, Kansas Army National Guard. [4]
Wings Over Kansas.com was created in 1998 by Wichita native Carl Chance, a broadcast professional and producer for the Wingspan Air & Space Channel, [1] [3] and former vice president of KPTS-TV. [7] In his more than thirty years of experience, Chance developed many relationships in the aviation community that have directly benefited the web ...