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- 51139628 accessdate "2014-08-16".
- 51139628 date "1941-05-22".
- 51139628 format "Newspapers.com transcript".
- 51139628 isCitedBy Fairfax_Municipal_Airport.
- 51139628 newspaper "Kansas City Star".
- 51139628 quote "Fairfax Municipal Field Gets WPA Grant to Enlarge and Improve … An allotment of $1,536,717 has been made by the WPA for improvement and development of Fairfax municipal airport, it was learned in a telegram received today by Mayor Don C. McCombs from U. S. Guyer, representative in Congress from the second congressional district of Kansas. The appropriation is expected to provide about eighteen months’ work for more than 1,000 men. It will be a start in making Fairfax one of the outstanding airports in the country. Big Port Need Acute. Need of greater field facilities for flight testing twin-engined bombing planes to be assembled at the 10-million-dollar government-owned plant under construction on adjacent land was responsible for the appropriation receiving precedent over other demands, it was said. The present port includes 240 acres and will be nearly tripled in size by the improvement, which is to include filling and leveling of old Goose "island,” a part of the property acquired by* the city in the airport purchase. Runways will extend far out onto the old island, now a part of the mainland and protected on the Missouri river side by a 6-mile dike. … Fairfax airport now is an important national defense center as an adjunct to the bomber plant and also as the United States army reserve air corps, and a base for the United States naval reserve aviation training. … The airport was purchased by the city this year and turned over to the board of public utilities for operation and maintenance. The board assumed the $750,000 bond obligation authorized by the voters at a special election for the airport purchase. An application for 2 million dollars was made to the WPA. That cleared through state and regional offices, was approved by the commander of the 7th corps area of the army and sent on to Washington for study by the war department,".
- 51139628 title "Big Bomber Port".
- 51139628 url 51139628.