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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 ...
Kansas City already owned Grandview Airport south of the city with ample room for expansion, but the city chose to build a new airport north of the city away from the Missouri River following lobbying by Platte County native Jay B. Dillingham, president of the Kansas City Stockyards, which had also been destroyed in the flood. [5]
Planning for the South Suburban Airport began in 1984 as a cooperative venture between the states of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, the city of Chicago, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has stated that the Chicago area needs a third airport to handle growing air traffic. After many studies, the airport location alternatives ...
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Give us back our citizens’ airport! The convenience of the old Kansas City International Airport’s horseshoe terminals has been a source of bragging for me since I moved to this area 26 years ago.
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.. Travelers will begin departing ...
Robbins Airport was built after the closure of the Acres Airport, the only Chicago-area airport that serviced black pilots. It was constructed by the Challenger Air Pilots' Association, a group of 15 to 20 black aviators that included pilots Cornelius Coffey , John C. Robinson , Janet Bragg , Earl W. Renfroe , and Harold Hurd, on the site of an ...
Clyde Kemp Jr., a traffic control officer, signals for drivers to slow down as they arrive Friday, April 21, 2023, to pick up passengers at Kansas City International Airport.