Fairfax Municipal Airport

For Military use of Fairfax Field, see Fairfax Field. For the nearby Kansas City airport to the south on the Missouri side of the river, see Kansas City Downtown Airport.
Fairfax Municipal Airport
The remaining runway sections of the airport are along the Missouri River (right) and on the north and east of the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant (right of center).
Similar northward view in World War II:[citation needed] by 1949 runways were 6,500 ft (2,000 m), 6,100 ft (1,900 m), 5,800 ft (1,800 m), and 4,500 ft (1,400 m).[1]
Summary
Airport typedefunct
In use1921–85
Coordinates39°08′53″N 094°35′59″W / 39.14806°N 94.59972°W / 39.14806; -94.59972
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Fairfax Municipal Airport is located in Kansas
Fairfax Municipal Airport
Fairfax Municipal Airport
Located mostly within Kansas, the Fairfax airport was north of the Kansas City Downtown Airport in Missouri.
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Fairfax Municipal Airport (known as Fairfax Field during World War II) was a Kansas City, Kansas airfield from 1921 that was used during 1935–1949 by the military. Federal land adjacent to the airfield included a WWII B-25 Mitchell plant and modification center and a Military Air Transport terminal. After being used as a Cold War-era Air Force Base, it was used for airliner servicing by TWA and for automobile and jet fighter aircraft production by General Motors, which built a 1985 Fairfax Plant over runways when the municipal airport closed.

  1. ^ title tbd (aeronautical chart) (Map). available at the National Airline History Museum, Kansas City (partially online at Airfields-Freeman.com). 1946. Retrieved 2013-07-14.
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