Beechcraft was founded in Wichita, Kansas in 1932 by Walter H. Beech and his wife Olive Ann Mellor Beech.

He was head coach of the Wichita Wind, the Oilers ' Central Hockey League affiliate, in the 1980 – 81 season.

Mr. Al-Kidd was born on 1973 in Wichita, Kansas and converted to Islam.

In keeping with the band's satirical nature, each member had a comical name: in addition to Kinky there was Little Jewford, Big Nig, Panama Red, Wichita Culpepper, Sky Cap Adams, Rainbow Colours, and Snakebite Jacobs.

PDP-1 # 44 was found in a barn in Wichita, Kansas in 1988, apparently formerly owned by one of the many aviation companies in the area, and rescued for the Digital Historical Collection, also eventually ending up at the CHM.

His early life was spent wandering through a variety of Texas cowtowns and boomtowns: Dark Valley ( 1906 ), Seminole ( 1908 ), Bronte ( 1909 ), Poteet ( 1910 ), Oran ( 1912 ), Wichita Falls ( 1913 ), Bagwell ( 1913 ), Cross Cut ( 1915 ), and Burkett ( 1917 ).

He was sent to Sheppard Field in Wichita Falls, Texas for basic training after which he was assigned as a clerk at Brooks Field in San Antonio, Texas.

The Texas longhorn stock slowly dwindled, until in 1927 the breed was saved from near extinction by enthusiasts from the United States Forest Service, who collected a small herd of stock to breed on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Lawton, Oklahoma.

He also was made honorary mayor of Wichita.

He was quoted as saying, " I set the whole thing in Wichita, Kansas, and as a result I got made an honorary mayor of Wichita.

Quaid was asked to read for the part of Bobby, the rich kid from Wichita Falls, but Bogdanovich thought he would be better as Marlow ; it was Quaid's debut role.

It was first distributed in Wichita, Kansas in 1994, before becoming more widely sold across the United States, Spain, Canada, Lebanon, Turkey, the GCC countries, Iran, Egypt, Vietnam, Pakistan and India.

This was followed in 1990 by the acquisition of the bankrupt Learjet Company of Wichita, Kansas, builder of the Learjet business aircraft, and finally the money-losing Boeing subsidiary de Havilland Aircraft of Canada based in Toronto, Ontario in 1992.

Historically, the area was a hunting ground for the Wichita, Osage, and Kiowa tribes.

Most of the region during this time was settled by the Wichita and Caddo people.

Hattie McDaniel was born June 10, 1895, in Wichita, Kansas, to former slaves.

Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Wichita County has remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county.

In 1913 Troop 1 was established in Wichita Falls, Texas.

He was killed on 5 May 1941 while flight-testing a Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita advanced two-engine training aircraft at Wichita Army Airfield, Kansas.

La Harpe was founded by the Fort Scott, Wichita & Western Railroad company ( later the Missouri Pacific ), and was platted in 1881.

Since its inception Beechcraft has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna, the birthplace of Learjet and of Stearman, whose trainers were used in large numbers during WW2.

Learjet is also a subsidiary of Bombardier based in Wichita, KS.

The Caddo tribe of Wichita also inhabited the area.

The Waco people were also a branch of the Wichita Indians.

Wichita was also a significant entrepreneurial business center during the pre and post-war period, with Coleman, Mentholatum, Pizza Hut, White Castle, Taco Tico and Koch Industries having all been founded in Wichita.

Boeing plant in Wichita, Boeing is also the largest employer in Wichita as per 2005 analysis.

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

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.

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

Wichita Transit also operates a demand response paratransit service with 320, 800 passenger trips annually.

Wichita also has among its people many prominent fictional characters, including the entire setting of the Dennis the Menace comic strip.

Elk City is also in close proximity to many other attractions in Western Oklahoma, including the Flying W Guest Ranch, Foss State Park, the Washita National Wildlife Refuge, Black Kettle National Grassland, the Wichita Mountains, the Antelope Hills, the Quartz Mountains, the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, and the Black Kettle Museum.

In addition to Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls is also home to the " world's littlest skyscraper ".

That same day, tornadoes also devastated the larger, nearby cities of Wichita Falls, Texas and Lawton, Oklahoma.

There are also educational and research sites in Parsons and Topeka, and branches of the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita and Salina.

The Medical Center also offers third and fourth year students an opportunity to do rotations at the Wichita campus.

The arrival of conservative Jews from Eastern Europe after the 1880s brought tension into the Wichita Jewish community, but also stirred an ethnoreligious revival.

TechTV was also broadcast over the air on KTQW in Wichita, Kansas until the TechTV name was dropped during the G4 merger.

Wichita State University also hosts classes at four satellite locations.

* There is a Tilden Street in an area of Wichita Falls, Texas, where the streets are named for the U. S. presidents Van Buren through Garfield ( excluding Pierce, Andrew Johnson and Lincoln ).

The city was named for the Colorado & Wichita Railroad.

AMD planned to release a new processor, code named Wichita, in 2012, but the project was cancelled in favor of a newer design.

Marcy and his troops had left the Wichita Mountains and the waterway which he named Otter Creek during his exploration, and they were traveling northwest along the North Fork of the Red River.

The Caddo are a federally recognized American Indian tribe for which Caddo County is named ; Caddo County is part of the former reservation of the Caddo, Wichita, and Western Delaware, prior to allotment in the post-Dawes Allotment Era.

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.

A flood in 1886 destroyed the original falls on the Wichita River for which the city was named.

Their grass houses, dispersed mode of settlement, a chief named Catarax, a Wichita title, the description of their graineries, and their location all are in accord with Coronado's earlier description of the Quivirans.

In 1926, by a vote of the citizens of Wichita, the college became a public non-denominational institution named the Municipal University of Wichita ( popularly known as " Wichita " or " WU "); it was the first municipal university west of the Mississippi.

* 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 )

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Wichita, after the city of Wichita, Kansas.

* The second was a replenishment oiler in service from 1969 to 1993 ; technically AOR-1 was named for both the city and the Wichita River.

The federal court building in Topeka is named in his honor, US 81 from the Nebraska state line north of Belleville to Salina is named the " Frank Carlson Memorial Highway ", the Frank Carlson Library in Concordia is named in his honor, and Wichita State University hosts the Frank Carlson Lecture Series.

The base was named in honor of Wichita brothers Fred and Thomas McConnell, both Air Force pilots and World War II veterans.

In 2003, he played for the Blue Rocks and AA Wichita Wranglers, where he was named the Royals Minor League Pitcher of the Year, Carolina League Pitcher of the Year, and The Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year, with a 15 – 4 record and 1. 93 ERA.

Many schools have been named after the Chisholm Trail, including Chisholm Trail Junior High School in Olathe, Kansas ; Chisholm Trail Elementary School which is part of the Wichita USD 259 school system and located within the city limits of Park City, Kansas ; Chisholm Middle School in Newton, Kansas ; and an intermediate school in Keller, Texas, named " Chisholm Trail Intermediate School ".

Mosley has a street named after him in downtown Wichita, so named by James Mead, who admired Mosley most out of all frontier traders.