Col. James Jabara Airport
| Col. James Jabara Airport | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | KAAO | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 433 m (1421 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 15 km northeast of Wichita, Kansas | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | July 1944 | ||
| operator | Wichita Airport Authority | ||
| surface | 243 ha | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 18/36 | 1860 m × 30 m concrete | ||
The Colonel James Jabara Airport ( ICAO code : KAAO ) is an airfield in Sedgwick County (Kansas) , some 15 kilometers northeast of the city of Wichita in the US state of Kansas , which is an important center for the aircraft industry. The 243 hectare airfield is located about 14 km northeast of the industrial area of Wichita at an altitude of 433 meters and has a 1,860 meter long concrete runway and a helicopter landing pad. There are around 100, mostly single-engine, aircraft stationed there and around 38,000 aircraft movements take place annually (census 2005/2006 season), an average of around 100 per day. The airfield is named after the military pilot James Jabara (1923–1966), who earned the reputation of the “first American jet ace” through numerous kills during the Korean War .
Trivia
On November 20, 2013 accidentally landed Boeing 747 "Dream Lifter" of Atlas Air (in terms of volume, the largest cargo aircraft in the world), which is actually 15 kilometers away McConnell Air Force Base southeast controlled by Wichita and there already had been given permission to land. When fully loaded, however, the Dreamlifter requires a 2,800 meter runway. The machine flew on to McConnell AFB a day later after a lot of cargo was removed.
Web links
- Col. James Jabara Airport (KAAO) on AirNav.com
- Youtube video start of flight GTI 4241
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nice airfield, unfortunately wrong . In: Spiegel online. November 23, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2016
- ↑ jumbo jet takes off safely from tiny Kansas airport . In: BBC. November 21, 2013, accessed on November 21, 2013 (English): "A gigantic Boeing 747 Dreamlifter cargo plane has safely taken off from a tiny airport in Kansas after it landed there by mistake."
