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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport: 2005 At its opening, this was the largest facility in the US. [13] Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: 2006 Connected to PHX Sky Train APM. [14] Las Vegas, NV Harry Reid International Airport: 2007 [15] Kansas City, MO: Kansas City International Airport ...
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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.
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 ...
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