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Fort Leavenworth ( / ˈlɛvənˌwɜːrθ /) is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth. [ 1] Built in 1827, it is the second oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C., and the oldest permanent settlement in Kansas. [ 2] Fort Leavenworth has been historically known ...
Schilling was closed in 1965, but some functions there continued. Today the Kansas Army National Guard occupies some of the air base buildings. Much of the old air base is now Salina Municipal Airport. Strother Army Airfield. This facility was between Winfield, Kansas, and Arkansas City, Kansas. It was about 4 miles (6.4 km) from each city.
3,779.5 metres (12,400 ft) Concrete. Source: Federal Aviation Administration [ 2] Whiteman Air Force Base ( IATA: SZL, ICAO: KSZL, FAA LID: SZL) is a United States Air Force base located just south of Knob Noster, Missouri, United States. The base is the current home of the B-2 Spirit bomber. It is named for 2nd Lt George Whiteman, who was ...
After some construction and upgrading of facilities, Grandview Air Force Base was opened on 1 October 1952, with the 4610th Air Base Squadron being the base operating unit (operating from Fairfax Field in Kansas City, Kansas). No military personnel were assigned prior to 1954 while major construction took place on runways, taxiways, aprons and ...
Fairfax Field was a wartime (WWII) facility of the United States Army Air Forces and later, the United States Air Force. The installation was north of Kansas City, Kansas. Used as a pre-war Naval Air Station, [ 3] the United States Army Air Forces leased the municipal airfield and built an Air Force Plant and modification center for North ...
Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of the city of St. Robert. The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood (former Chief of Staff) in January 1941. Originally intended to train infantry troops, in 1941 it ...
Built. 1940-1944. In use. 1940-present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Missouri for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the ...
Founded in 1949 at 520 W. 14th St., its name was inspired by the historic Kansas City stockyards just down the hill in the West Bottoms. In early 1964 it moved to its current spot just west of ...