Coffeyville Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport four miles northeast of
Coffeyville, in
Montgomery County,
Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
, United States.
Facilities
The airport covers and has two
asphalt
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runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...
s: 17/35 is 5,872 x 100 ft (1,790 x 30 m) and 4/22 is 4,000 x 75 ft (1,219 x 23 m).
For the 12-month period ending September 19, 2005 the airport had 5,550 aircraft operations, average 15 per day: 99%
general aviation
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and 1% military. 40 aircraft were then based at the airport: 85% single-engine, 10% multi-engine and 5%
ultralight
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.
History
: ''For the World War II use of the airport, see
Coffeyville Army Airfield
Coffeyville Army Airfield was a World War II training base of the United States Army Air Forces Central Flying Training Command (CFTC). It was later used by Third Air Force. Today, it is the city-owned Coffeyville Municipal Airport, Kansas.
...
''
During World War II the facility was Coffeyville Army Airfield. It was a
United States Army Air Forces
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AAF Flying Training Command training field from 1942 to 1945.
[Kansas Historical Quarterly, Volume XXV, Summer 1959, Number 2, pp130-134, https://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1959/1959summer_u_s_army.pdf]
Aircraft used were
Vultee BT-13A Valiants and BT-15s. The airfield performed Basic Pilot School instruction, the second phase of the three-phase training program for pilots. The facility was closed and turned over to civil authorities in 1947.
From 1951 to 1954 Ozark Airlines DC-3s between Tulsa and Kansas City stopped at Coffeyville; the airport was then called McGugin Field. National Air Transport's timetable showed a stop at Coffeyville in the 1930s, but that was an earlier airport.
In the 1950s Continental Can Company leased the hangars at the airport and was a subcontractor for Boeing Corporation, building bomb bay doors for B-52 Stratofortresses. This ended in 1958 with the completion of the B-52 contract. Coffeyville had been an industrious small city; this plant closing along with the closing of other industries was a severe blow to Coffeyville's financial health.
In its heyday Coffeyville had a dairy, Page Milk Company; an oilfield drilling rig company, Parkersburg; two railroad yards and maintenance operations, ATSF & Katy; a brick company and terra cotta roofing tile company, Ludawece Celadon; a cast iron casting company; and a large oil refinery, Co-Op. On the northwest outskirts was a large smelter. Except for the oil refinery, which has a small operation today, all industries are gone.
See also
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List of airports in Kansas
This is a list of airports in Kansas (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that we ...
References
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1942 establishments in Kansas
Airports established in 1942
Airports in Kansas
Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Kansas
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