Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport

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The Wichita Mid -Continent Airport ( IATA: ICT, ICAO: KICT ) is a commercial airport. It is located in the southwest of Wichita in Sedgwick County, Kansas in the United States and is the largest airport in Kansas.

History

The Wichita Mid Continent Airport was designed by the United States Air Force as a military base in 1951. The Air Force planned to acquire the " Wichita Municipal Airport " and then the McConnell Air Force Base to set up. The procedure went to court. Wichita 's park board acquired but quickly 1923 acres ( 7.8 km ²) of land in the southwest of Wichita and the construction of the new " Wichita Municipal Airport " was completed after about 3.5 years. The new airport was inaugurated on 31 October 1954. In 1973 he received the new name Wichita Mid - Continent Airport, after Kansas City had its Mid-Continent Airport to Kansas City International Airport renamed.

Callsign

The IATA code of the airport ICT is actually the abbreviation for Wichita. At that time, the Federal Communications Commission had forbidden to operate airports with the " K" ( ie, for example Kansas International, KIN) or "W " (eg Wichita International, WIN) incipient rings. The naming convention foresaw for the instead of the second letter of the name should be used together with an extension phonetically understandable to optimize the intelligibility of the radio. For similar reasons, was Kansas City could not call it a KCI, as in 1972 the Mid- Contintent International Airport to Kansas City International Airport renamed above has Kansas City still the identifier MCI. The IATA changes are very reluctant to these names because they then have to be changed to navigational instruments and maps.