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1106:] United States army reserve air corps, and a base for the United States naval reserve aviation training. … The airport was purchased by the city this year and turned over to the board of public utilities for operation and maintenance. The board assumed the $ 750,000 bond obligation authorized by the voters at a special election for the airport purchase. An application for 2 million dollars was made to the WPA. That cleared through state and regional offices, was approved by the commander of the 7th corps area of the army and sent on to Washington for study by the war department,
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American Royal. Between 1942 and 1945 100 WACO CG-3A 8-place trainers and 1400 13-place WACO CG-4As rolled off the assembly lines – making Rearwin the second largest producer in the nation. Kansas City and Fairfax gliders were used in European operations from 1943 to the end of the war. … On the south edge of Kansas City on Bannister Road, Pratt & Whitney spent 85 million dollars constructing a 57-acre plant that employed 24, on a mile-long assembly line.
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Missouri river side by a 6-mile dike. … Fairfax airport now is an important national defense center as an adjunct to the bomber plant and also as the home of Richards field, [
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Aircraft Company…In early 1942 it bought the family-owned Rearwin Airplanes that manufactured well designed light aircraft. Australian-owned Commonwealth won a U.S. government contract to produce Army Air Force troop-carrying tactical gliders in the Rearwin facility. A second factory was
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allotted $ 1,536,717 for improvements and expansion of the 240-acre (97 ha) airport. The 4 civilian runways were improved with concrete of 150 feet in width and 185,000 square yards of parking apron.—the government also purchased an alfalfa field of 75 acres (30 ha) for the AAF plant and
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October 1949 the U.S. Air Force terminated its lease on Fairfax Airport, and the city of Kansas City, Kansas, regained control of the facility. The reconverted factory finished its first automobile in June 1946… In 1960 General Motors purchased the
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Fairfax, and the airport was added to the GNIS on October 13, 1978. Fairfax's longest runway (17/35) was 7,301 ft (2,225 m) long when the airport's last flight departed on March 31, 1985, and on April 1, 1985, the land was added to the Fairfax District industrial area. The
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Service built facilities at Boston; Pittsburgh; Columbus; Cincinnati; Louisville; Kansas City, Missouri; Santa Monica, California; and Seattle. In each case, it leased the land for one dollar a year, furnished steel hangars from its surplus, and contracted through the
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owned 32.80 acres; eight private owners owned 72.18 acres; two railroads other than the Union
Pacific owned 66.47 acres; land set aside for dedicated roads was 31.54 acres; land on which dikes were built was 57.23 acres." Sweeney Airport was mapped by the
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Fairfax in January 1930. An "impressive structure" costing $ 60,000 and with pay toilets for extra profit was built in 193x as a new administration building, and the land also had a
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was built May–October 1942—a different modification center was at Kansas City, Missouri.) Fairfax's civilian manufacturing facility for
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monoplane" on August 2, 1928. Dedicated in 1929, the facility was operated by the "Fairfax Airport Company" ("Fairfax Airports, Inc." in 1931), and the 1st Fairfax passenger service aircraft was a
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