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Indianapolis Municipal Airport opened in 1931, replacing the older Stout Field as the primary city airport. The airport was initially built on about 320 acres (130 ha) of land in the southwestern edge of the city, with an additional 627 acres (254 ha) reserved for future expansions at the airport. [ 8 ]
Indianapolis Center is depicted in the second scene of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), in which an air traffic controller provides information and guidance to pilots of two passenger jets (Trans World Airlines, Allegheny Airlines and a fictional "Air East") who are en route through the ZID flight information region to avoid collisions with each other or with an ...
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 ...
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Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport covers 445 acres (180 ha); its one runway, 15/33, is 4,004 x 100 ft (1,220 x 30 m) asphalt. For the year ending December 31, 2016, the airport had 24,590 aircraft operations, an average of 67 per day: 80% general aviation , 17% air taxi and 3% military.
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.
KCI’s final scheduled departing flight from the old airport leaves for Chicago on Monday at 10:25 p.m. The Star’s Jenna Thompson and Robert A. Cronkleton contributed to this report. Show comments
KMCI (MCI) – Kansas City International Airport – Kansas City, Missouri; KMCK (MCK) – McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport – McCook, Nebraska; KMCN (MCN) – Middle Georgia Regional Airport – Macon, Georgia; KMCO (MCO) – Orlando International Airport – Orlando, Florida; KMCW – Mason City Municipal Airport – Mason City, Iowa