Clay County owns and operates the Midwest National Air Center in Excelsior Springs.

Prior to its dissolution Air Midwest, a regional airline, was based in Wichita.

The city was developed in response to talk of an air field being located nearby and named for the Tinker Air Force Base's original designation as the Midwest Air Depot.

The city, which was incorporated on March 11, 1943, was named for the air field's original designation as the Midwest Air Depot.

Midwest City's economic base is heavily dependent upon Federal tax dollars via Tinker Air Force Base.

Portions of Midwest City particularly northwest of Tinker Air Force Base sustained extreme damage from a violent tornado that swept through the southern and eastern areas of the Oklahoma City Metro on May 3, 1999.

After buying Midwest Air Charter, Airborne Express made history by buying the Clinton County Air Force Base in Wilmington and became the first airline in history to own and operate an airport.

: Note: ** Combat units redeployed from Europe, turned in aircraft at Bradley then were transferred to Second Air Force transition schools in the Midwest for B-29 Superfortress training prior to deployment to Twentieth Air Force in the Western Pacific.

: Band of the Midwest, 566th Air Force Band, Peoria

Air Midwest, Inc., was a Federal Aviation Administration Part 121 certificated air carrier operating under air carrier certificate number AMWA510A issued on May 15, 1965.

Air Midwest was founded in Wichita, Kansas, in May 1965 by Gary Adamson as Aviation Services, Inc.

In 1969, it changed its name to Air Midwest and ordered Beech 99 aircraft to keep up with its expansion.

Mesa Air Group acquired Air Midwest in 1991.

In 1979, Air Midwest took over many routes operated by Texas International Airlines in New Mexico.

Air Midwest served the Lubbock market and partnered with Braniff Airlines in Lubbock.

In 1985, Air Midwest merged with Scheduled Skyways, a Fayetteville, Arkansas, based air carrier, in hopes of gaining a codeshare to feed Republic Airlines ' Memphis hub.

Air Midwest would expand by acquiring routes in Arkansas to complement its existing routes in the midwest.

Both carriers operated Metros, and Air Midwest had an opportunity to win a codeshare with Republic.

Air Midwest discovered many hidden problems with the neglected fleet inherited from Scheduled Skyways, forcing the airline to perform a great deal of maintenance to keep the aircraft flying.

The merger with Scheduled Skyways pushed Air Midwest to the verge of bankruptcy over the few years that followed.

Although Air Midwest was unsuccessful in gaining a codeshare with Republic through the Scheduled Skyways merger, it was able to acquire codeshare agreements with Ozark Air Lines as Ozark Midwest, Eastern Air Lines as Eastern Air Midwest Express, and American Airlines as American Eagle Airlines in 1985.

The village of Lincolnshire is serviced by the Northern division of the Waste Management, Inc. Midwest Group for solid waste disposal.

* Other Sikeston businesses include AgMart Sales, Clayton Fabrication and Metal Works, Collins Music, Construction Trailer Specialists, Days Inn, DeWitt Company, Duckett Truck Center, Ferguson Medical Group, First Midwest Bank, Focus Bank, Garage Door Company of Sikeston, J. C. Penney, J-J-N Enterprises, Lowe's, Meyers Supply Company, Slusher Farm and Home Center, Mitchell Insurance, NewWave Communications, Pyramid Roofing Company, Retco Trailer Manufacturing, Steward Steel, The UPS Store, and Walgreens with multiple locations for Dollar General, Raymond James Financial, State Farm Insurance, and U. S. Bancorp.

The management was changed in May 2004 from Clear Channel Entertainment to Midwest Entertainment Group, a joint venture of the Timberwolves and Nederlander Concerts.

The Echo is printed by Print Group Midwest on recycled paper.

In 1997, Mesa Air Group underwent a corporate reorganization: Mesa Airline's FloridaGulf, Liberty Express, and Independent divisions were merged into Air Midwest.

For a period of three weeks in August 2006, Air Midwest operated as Delta Connection, flying three Beechcraft 1900D from John F. Kennedy Airport to Providence, RI, and Windsor Locks, Connecticut, as a stop-gap measure for Freedom Airlines, another subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, until it was relieved by Chautauqua Airlines.

New Mexico Airlines was set up to take over the Air Midwest flying dropped by Mesa Air Group

** a regional airline brand used by the regional airline Air Midwest, a subsidiary for the regional airline holding company Mesa Air Group

Among the groups which organized against the FTAA were the Green Bloc, United for Peace and Justice, Root Cause, several AFL-CIO affiliated unions, Midwest Unrest, Pittsburgh Organizing Group, Food Not Bombs and many others.

** Order 2006-8-29: selecting Mesa Air Group Inc. d / b / a Air Midwest to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at Merced and Visalia, California, and Ely, Nevada, for two years, beginning when the carrier inaugurates service.

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< td width =" 74 %" valign = top > On August 12, 2007 Agreed to purchase Midwest Air Group and its subsidiaries including Midwest Airlines ending the hostile takeover attempt by AirTran Airways.

Skyway Airlines, along with its parent corporation, Midwest Air Group, has ceased operations.

In 2006 and 2007, Midwest Air Group also fought off a hostile takeover attempt by rival airline AirTran Airways.

Northwest and TPG purchased Midwest Air Group, with 47 % and 53 % ownership stakes, respectively.

On February 2, 2009, Midwest Air Group CEO Tim Hoeksema announced in an internal corporate memorandum that all remaining Skyway functions will be assumed by Midwest Airlines, and that Skyway will cease to exist as a separate entity.

From the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, before its sale to Mesa Air Group in 1991, Wichita-based Air Midwest served Manhattan with flights to Salina ( SLN ) and Kansas City ( MCI ) using 19-passenger Fairchild Fairchild Metroliner III turboprop aircraft.

In 1991, Air Midwest was sold to the Mesa Air Group of Nevada.

Subsequently, Air Midwest ( a Mesa Air Group subsidiary ), acting under a codeshare agreement with U. S. Airways and operating as US Airways Express, served Kansas City, Missouri from Manhattan, Kansas with three daily flights using 19-passenger Beechcraft 1900D turboprop aircraft.

** Order 2004-2-14 ( February 17, 2004 ): selects Air Midwest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d / b / a US Airways Express, to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) for a two-year period at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, at a combined annual subsidy rate of $ 721, 605.

** Order 2006-3-15 ( March 15, 2006 ): re-selecting Air Midwest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d / b / a US Airways Express, to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) for the two-year period beginning March 1, 2006, at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, at a combined annual subsidy rate of $ 974, 008.

** Order 2007-12-25 ( December 21, 2007 ): re-selecting Air Midwest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d / b / a US Airways Express to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, for a total annual subsidy of $ 1, 619, 566 for the two-year period beginning March 1, 2008.