* The IATA code for Beech Factory Airport, Wichita, Kansas, United States

There is also The Kansas Aviation Museum in the Terminal and Administration building of the former Municipal Airport in South Wichita tucked away near Boeing and McConnell Air Force Base

Knight and Day ( 2010 ) is set partly at the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, and was formerly titled Wichita.

Cessna Aircraft Field and Beech Factory Airport, operated by manufacturers Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft, respectively, lie in east Wichita.

Two smaller airports, Riverside Airport and Westport Airport, are located in west Wichita.

File: Low shot 2 R. jpg | Kansas Aviation Museum, formerly Wichita Municipal Airport from 1935 to 1951

* Wichita Mid-Continent Airport ( ICT )

Wilbarger County Airport is located 5 miles north of Vernon and the nearest airport with scheduled flights is Wichita Falls Municipal Airport 50 miles to the east which predominantly offers flights of commuter airlines to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

* Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, an airport in Wichita, Kansas ( IATA Airport Code ICT )

( Dulles Airport ), Denver, St. Louis, Detroit and Wichita at this same time.

* Wichita Falls Municipal Airport ( IATA airport code )

Kansas Aviation Museum, formerly Wichita Municipal Airport from 1935 to 1951

This museum is a hub of the city's museums along the Arkansas River: the Mid-America All-Indian Center, Old Cowtown living history museum, Exploration Place science and discovery center, The Keeper of the Plains statue and its associated display highlighting the daily lives of plains Indians, and Botanica, The Wichita Gardens.

The Wichita Eagle, which began publication in 1872, is the city's major daily newspaper.

The Wichita Public Library is the city's library system, presently consisting of a Central Library downtown and nine branch locations in neighborhoods around the city.

U. S. Route 54 and U. S. Route 400 run concurrently through Wichita as Kellogg Avenue, the city's primary east-west artery, with interchanges, from west to east, with I-235, I-135, and I-35.

Downtown Wichita Falls was the city's main shopping area for many years, but lost ground to the creation of new shopping centers throughout the city beginning with Parker Square in 1953 and other similar developments during the 1960s and 1970s, culminating with the opening of Sikes Senter Mall in 1974.

The name is thus a rare example of a triple entendre: one hundred miles ( i. e., century ) in one hundred degree Fahrenheit weather ( the race is held in August, usually the hottest month of the year in Wichita Falls ), initially conducted to celebrate the city's 100th anniversary.

* Kellogg Avenue, the popular name for the U. S. Route 54 and U. S. Route 400 freeway through Wichita, Kansas ( originally named after Milo B. Kellogg, the city's first civilian postmaster )

The two most notable residential areas of Wichita are Riverside and College Hill.

The two largest privately held companies in the United States, Cargill and Koch Industries, both operate headquarters facilities in Wichita.

Wichita is also home to two major shopping malls: Towne East Square and Towne West Square, on opposite ends of town, and each managed by Simon Property Group.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita oversees 16 Catholic schools in the city including 14 elementary schools and two high schools, Bishop Carroll Catholic High School and Kapaun Mt.

There are also two Seventh-day Adventist schools in Wichita, Three Angels School ( K-8 ) and Wichita Adventist Christian Academy ( K-10 ).

In addition, Wichita Area Technical College, a two-year public college, has its main campus and two satellite locations in the city.

In addition, two lines of the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad enter the city, one from the northwest and the other from the southwest, both terminating at their junction in west-central Wichita.

Near the river are the Deer Creek / Bryson Paddock Sites where archaeologists have excavated the ruins of two prominent 18th century Wichita Indian villages.

Problems began when the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railroad missed Eschiti by two miles and Kell City ( named after the railroad ’ s promoter ) sprang up along the railroad's route.

The town experienced two distinct economic booms: the first, short-lived, with the construction of the Wichita Valley rail line in 1880, and the second due to the discovery of oil in 1906.

In January, he took The Endless Summer to Wichita, Kansas for two weeks where moviegoers lined up in snowy weather in the middle of winter and it went on to selling out multiple screenings.

The Volunteers went 27-1-1 during Kramer's two years on the varsity, beating Wichita Falls High School 28-27 for the Class 4A state title in 1971 and losing to Baytown Sterling 21-20 in the 1972 state semifinals.

The phonology of Wichita is unusual, with almost no labials ( the two exceptions being / kw / and / w /.

He began his career by taking pictures for two local newspapers, The Wichita Eagle ( morning circulation ) and the Beacon ( evening circulation ).

While at Wichita North High School, Woodard won two state basketball titles.

Admiral Giffen, with Wichita and the two escort carriers, had just arrived in the Pacific after participating in Operation Torch in the North African Campaign.

He also played two seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League, the 1978-1979 season with the Cleveland Force and the 1979-1980 season with the Wichita Wings.

Banks owned two stations — both of which became CW Television Network affiliates under Banks: KWCV ( now KSCW ) in Wichita, Kansas and KNIN-TV in Boise, Idaho ( the latter has since switched its network affiliation to Fox ).

Driscoll wrote of his life in Kansas in the Kansas Irish trilogy ; the first two books published in 1943 ( Kansas Irish ) and 1946 ( Country Jake ) and the last East and West of Wichita in manuscript.

No airships were ever assigned, but each hangar was large enough to accommodate two B-52 aircraft wingtip to wingtip, which proved invaluable for Big Belly and Pacer Plank modifications managed by Boeing's Wichita plant between 1965 and 1973.

Mosley arrived with a companion surnamed Moxley, and the two built a trading " ranche " near the intersection of the Osage Trail and the Big Arkansas River, 14 miles northwest of the present location of Wichita.

Oñate journeyed east from New Mexico, crossing the Great Plains and encountering two large settlements of people he called Escanjaques ( possibly Wichita ) and Rayados, most certainly Wichita.