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yep!!! definitlely. Wichita is the air capital of the world!!!
Wichita was a stop on the Chisolm trail, and was a destination for eastward-bound cattle drives. Its claim to fame is being the "Air Capital of the World", because several aircraft companies started there, including Stearman, Cessna, Mooney, and Beechcraft.
it is Wichita, Kansas. There are factories of Beech, Cessna and Lear, plus service center of Boeing and others. Nickname: Air Capital of the World
Wichita Kansas has been considered the Air Capital of the world since the late 1920s. First as a self proclamation, but today as the city producing more aircraft than any other city on earth. Wichita is home to Cessna, Beach (Travel Air), Lear, and Stearman/Boeing Plant II etc. through buy outs and name changes. Through the course of powered flight there have been over 100 aircraft manufacturers in Kansas.
4,710 air miles.
546 miles
The air distance from Wichita, Kansas, to Atlanta, Georgia, is 776 miles. That equals 1,249 kilometers or 675 nautical miles.
The distance is about 7,582 air miles.
The address of the Sheppard Air Force Base Heritage Foundation is: 2111 Avondale, Wichita Falls, TX 76308-1213
Six hundred seventy-nine (679) is the air mileage from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Wichita, Kansas. That equals 1,092 kilometers or 590 nautical miles.
McConnell Air Force Base was initially established as Wichita Municipal Airport in 1928. It was later reassigned as Wichita Army Airfield in 1941 and renamed to McConnell Air Force Base in 1951.