Strother Field
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Strother Field (Template:Comma separated entries) is a public airport in Cowley County, Kansas, six miles southwest of Winfield[2] and north of Arkansas City. The airport is jointly owned by the two cities.[2] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility.[3]
History
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Military use of Strother Field ended in October 1945 and it was turned over for civil use. Today, the site is Strother Field and Industrial Park. Remaining wartime structures include the runways, two hangars, two link training buildings, a tetrahedron wind cone, two ruins sites and a building of unknown original use.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The airport is named for Donald Root Strother, the first Army Air Corps pilot from Cowley County, Kansas to lose his life in World War II. His older brother Dean C. Strother became a four-star general in the United States Air Force.[5]
Winfield had scheduled Central Airlines flights in 1950–53. on Bonanzas, then DC-3s.
The Strother Field Tetrahedron Wind Indicator was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[4]
Facilities
Strother Field covers 1,656 acres (670 ha) at an elevation of 1,160 feet (354 m). It has two asphalt runways: 17/35 is 5,506 by 100 feet (1,678 x 30 m) and 13/31 is 3,137 by 75 feet (956 x 23 m).[2]
Strother field's industrial park includes a jet engine maintenance and manufacturing facility for GE Aviation.
In the year ending May 21, 2021, the airport had 6,500 general aviation aircraft operations, average 125 per week. 18 aircraft were then based at the airport: all single-engine.[2]
See also
References
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External links
- Strother Field Industrial Park, Winfield, Kansas
- Historical building inventory of Strother Field, 2008
- Aerial image as of March 1996 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for WLD, effective Error: Invalid time.
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for WLD
- AirNav airport information for KWLD
- ASN accident history for WLD
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures