Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport
Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport serving Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Located in Clay County, this facility is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, which categorized it as a general aviation reliever airport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport
- Also known as: “KMKC” and “MKC”
- Historically known as: “Kansas City Downtown Airport”
- Address: 300 Northwest Richards Road, Kansas City, MO 64116
Places of Interest
Highlights include Airline History Museum and ASB Bridge.
Airline History Museum
Museum
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The Airline History Museum is an aviation museum located at the Kansas City Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Missouri focused on the history of airlines in the United States.
ASB Bridge
Bridge
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The Armour–Swift–Burlington Bridge, also known as the North Kansas City Bridge and the LRC Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge crossing the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri.
Buck O’Neil Bridge
Bridge
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The Buck O'Neil Bridge was a triple arch bridge that spanned the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. It first opened for traffic September 9, 1956 as the Broadway Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include River Market and Garment District.
River Market
Neighborhood
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The River Market is a riverfront neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri that comprises the first and oldest incorporated district in Kansas City. It stretches north of the downtown Interstate 70 loop to the Missouri River, and is bordered by the Buck O'Neil Bridge on the west and the Heart of America Bridge on the east.
Garment District
Neighborhood
Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.
The Kansas City Garment District is located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri to the east of Quality Hill, across Broadway Boulevard. In the 1930s several large clothing manufacturers clustered here, making Kansas City's garment district second only to New York City's in size.
West Bottoms
Locality
The West Bottoms is a historic industrial neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, immediately west of downtown and straddling the border of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas.
Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Gallatin Township, Clay, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.12444° or 39° 7′ 28″ northLongitude
-94.5941° or 94° 35′ 39″ westElevation
741 feet (226 metres)IATA airport code
MKCICAO airport code
KMKCFAA airport code
MKCOpen location code
86F74CF4+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 290628980OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
4393218Wikidata ID
Q949049
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport”
- Chinese: “堪萨斯城市中心机场”
- Chinese: “堪萨斯城市立机场”
- Chinese: “市区机场”
- Chinese: “市區機場”
- Chinese: “查尔斯·B·惠勒市区机场”
- Chinese: “查爾斯·B·惠勒市區機場”
- Chinese: “查爾斯·惠勒市區機場”
- Dutch: “Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار تشارلز بى ويلر داون تاون”
- French: “aérodrome de Charles B Wheeler Downtown”
- French: “Aérodrome de Charles B Wheeler Downtown”
- French: “MKC”
- Indonesian: “KMKC”
- Indonesian: “MKC”
- Navajo: “Ahidiilį́įgi Kin Haalʼáhí beʼałníiʼdi chidí naatʼaʼí ńdinibįįhígi”
- Persian: “KMKC”
- Persian: “MKC”
- Persian: “فرودگاه چارلز ب. ویلر داونتاون”
- Persian: “فرودگاه چارلز ب. ویلر داونتاوون”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Charles B. Wheeler Downtown”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Urbano Charles B. Wheeler”
- Swedish: “Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи чорлз б. вилр довнтовун”
- Urdu: “چارلس بی وہیلر ڈاون ٹاؤن ہوائی اڈا”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Station and U.S. Customs.
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