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Wichita Airport Improvements – Wichita KS

Wichita Municipal Airport

Wichita Municipal Airport

Source Public domain 1938

Wichita Municipal Airport

Wichita Municipal Airport

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Started:
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Description

Now officially Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, what was originally Wichita Municipal Airport was improved and developed by the W.P.A. during the 1930s. Improvement work included paving the runways.

Source notes

Inventory: An Appraisal of Results of the Works Progress Administration (1938), pg. 29
https://archive.org/stream/Inventory19380630/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Aviation_Museum

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 14, 2017.

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Location Info

Wichita Airport
Wichita, KS 67210

Coordinates: 37.632150, -97.273725

One comment on “Wichita Airport Improvements – Wichita KS”

  1. Keith McKinney June 17, 2020

    When I was little late 40’s early 50’S my Dad would take me here to see the air planes. What great memories

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