Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 1,421 ft / 433 m 6,101 1,860 Phone +1 316-636-9700 | 18/36 6,101 Elevation 433 m | |
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Owner Wichita Airport Authority Address 3512 North Webb Road, Wichita, KS 67226, USA Similar Midwest Corporate Aviation, Wichita Area Technical, Courtyard by Marriott Wichita E, LakePoint Aviation | ||
Dreamlifter takeoff from colonel james jabara airport wichita ks
Colonel James Jabara Airport (ICAO: KAAO, FAA LID: AAO) is a public airport located nine miles (14 km) northeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. It is named in honor of World War II and Korean War flying ace James Jabara, an American of Lebanese descent who has the distinction of being the first American jet ace.
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- Dreamlifter takeoff from colonel james jabara airport wichita ks
- 747 dreamlifter takes off from colonel james jabara airport
- Facilities and aircraft
- Incidents
- References
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Colonel James Jabara Airport is assigned AAO by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned AAO to Anaco Airport in Anaco, Venezuela).
747 dreamlifter takes off from colonel james jabara airport
Facilities and aircraft
Colonel James Jabara Airport covers an area of 600 acres (243 ha) which contains one runway and one helipad:
For 12-month period ending May 31, 2006, the airport had 38,300 aircraft operations, an average of 104 per day: 97% general aviation and 3% air taxi. There are 108 aircraft based at this airport: 60% single engine, 28% multi-engine, 9% jet aircraft, 1% helicopters, 1% ultralights and 1% military.
Incidents
On November 20th, 2013 at approximately 9:30 pm CST, a Boeing 747-400 Dreamlifter with registration N780BA and operated by Atlas Air, mistakenly landed at the Colonel James Jabara Airport. The large cargo plane was supposed to land at McConnell Air Force Base, taxi over to nearby Spirit AeroSystems, and pick up some fuselage parts for the assembly of Boeing 787 Dreamliners in Seattle, Washington. The plane successfully took off at 1:15 pm CST on November 21 and landed at nearby McConnell AFB. The NTSB opened an investigation about the wrong landing.