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The Kansas City Overhaul Base is a 1.7-million-square-foot (160,000 m 2) manufacturing and maintenance plant adjacent to Kansas City International Airport. The plant at its peak in the 1960s and 1970s employed more than 6,000 people who worked on repairing the entire fleet of Trans World Airlines (and other airlines under contract) and it was ...
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 ...
Check out these how-to videos about Kansas City International Airport’s new single terminal that show what travelers can expect when the new terminal opens next week.
TWA's main overhaul base was a former B-25 bomber factory at Fairfax, and TWA commercial flights flew out of the main downtown airport. Subsequently Kansas City planned to build an airport with room for 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runways and knew the downtown airport would not be large enough.
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 ...
Engineering firm Burns & McDonnell lost its bid to build the new KCI terminal but, according to a document obtained by The Star, it won its next big airport battle.
Kansas City International Airport (IATA: MCI) Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport (IATA: MKC) This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 01:33 (UTC). Text is ...
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