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Colonel James Jabara Airport covers an area of 600 acres (243 ha) which contains one runway. Runway 18/36: 6,101 ft × 100 ft (1,860 m × 30 m), surface: concrete For 12-month period ending August 13, 2019, the airport had 38,300 aircraft operations, an average of 104 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% air taxi .
The Boeing Dreamlifter, officially the 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF), is a wide-body cargo aircraft modified extensively from the Boeing 747-400 airliner. With a volume of 65,000 cubic feet (1,840 m 3 ) [ 1 ] it can hold three times that of a 747-400F freighter. [ 2 ]
On 20 November 2013 at approximately 9:30 pm CST, a Boeing 747-400 Dreamlifter with registration N780BA and operated by Atlas Air, mistakenly landed at the Colonel James Jabara Airport. The large cargo plane was supposed to land at McConnell Air Force Base, taxi over to nearby Spirit AeroSystems , and pick up some fuselage parts for the ...
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Thinking they are on approach to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, the crew of Atlas Air Boeing 747-400 Dreamlifter cargo aircraft N780BA mistakenly lands nine miles (14.5 km) away at Colonel James Jabara Airport. The plane lands safely, although the airport ' s 6,100-foot (1,859-meter) runway is too short for Boeing 747 operations ...
James "Jabby" Jabara (10 October 1923 – 17 November 1966) was the first American and United States Air Force jet ace. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Born in Oklahoma, he lived in Kansas where he enlisted as an aviation cadet at Fort Riley after graduating from high school.
The Boeing Dreamlifter, a modified 747-400, first flew on September 9, 2006. The 747-400 Dreamlifter [196] (originally called the 747 Large Cargo Freighter or LCF [197]) is a Boeing-designed modification of existing 747-400s into a larger outsize cargo freighter configuration to ferry 787 Dreamliner sub-assemblies.