![]() The downtown airport has been renamed for Charles Wheeler who was mayor when Kansas City International opened. Kansas City replaced the airport in 1972 with Kansas City International Airport. In the early 1960s, an FAA memo called it "the most dangerous major airport in the country" and urged that no further federal funds be spent on it. Airplanes had to avoid the 200-foot (60 m) Quality Hill and the Downtown Kansas City skyline at the south end of the main runway. The airport had limited area for expansion (in fact, Fairfax Airport directly across the Missouri River in Kansas City, Kansas was actually bigger area wise before it closed). At the time air travel was considered to be handled in conjunction with rail traffic. The airport was built in the Missouri River bottoms next to the rail tracks at the Hannibal Bridge. Its most prominent tenant was TWA which was headquartered in Kansas City because of its central location. It was quickly renamed Kansas City Municipal Airport. It was dedicated as New Richards Field in 1927 by Charles Lindbergh. ![]() This airport replaced Richards Field as Kansas City's main airport. ![]() The Fairfax Assembly plant (the former Fairfax Airport) is the big building across the Missouri River on the left. The Broadway Bridge (Kansas City) is on the right. ![]()
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