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Title: Municipal Airport Future Site
Description: Aerial view of New Richards Field which soon became known as Municipal Airport. Shows biplanes on the ground and the second Hannibal Bridge.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airline Service Here to a New Peak
Description: This 1937 article gives schedules and airplane descriptions for Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (TWA), Hanford Airlines, Braniff Airways, and United. It gives a schedule for the new Sky Hawk that had its inaugural run on May 1, 1937, a description of the "new 25-passenger Sleeper Skyliners, berths comparable to those offered on railroad Pullmans," and has a picture of the Skysleeper.
Date: 1937-05-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Slick Airways Airplane on Runway
Description: Roy Gerrity (Burnett Meat Co.), Richard W. Theophilus (Slick Airways), and N. Emerson Paton (Secretary, South Central Business Association) holding steaks and a sign in front of a Slick Airways airplane. The plane was shipping a gift of Kansas City steaks to broadcaster Ted Mack in New York City.
Date: 1951-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Slick Airways Airplane on Runway
Description: Roy Gerrity (Burnett Meat Co.), Richard W. Theophilus (Slick Airways), and N. Emerson Paton (Secretary, South Central Business Association) holding steaks and a sign in front of a Slick Airways airplane. The plane was shipping a gift of Kansas City steaks to broadcaster Ted Mack in New York City.
Date: 1951-12-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Biplane Built in Topeka
Description: Short article describing the first successful flight of a Kansas-made airplane on September 2, 1911. The pilot was Albin K. Longren, who along with his brother, E. J. Longren, constructed the biplane they christened "Topeka I." Longren promoted his aircraft on barnstorming tours and later built a successful aviation manufacturing company.
Date: 2008
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Jumbo Crowd-Pleaser Arrives
Description: The Airline History Museum added a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar to its aircraft on display on January 29, 2010. The jumbo jet was headed for the scrap heap until an Arizona man donated the $100,000 that allowed the museum to purchase it. It was flown to Kansas City from New Mexico.
Date: 2010-01-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Airplane Surrounded by People
Description: Distant view of Fokker plane and nearby crowd at unidentified location.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Vintage Voom! Fly Back in History at Missouri's Aviation Museums
Description: Article about four historic airplane museums in Missouri that run along Interstate-70, including the Airline History Museum in Kansas City. Three planes on display in the museum's hangar include the Super G Constellation, or "Connie," the DC-3, and the Martin 404.
Date: 2010
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Success on the Fly
Description: Article profiles Robert Baslee and his company Airdrome Aeroplanes, a world leader in producing replica WWI aircraft. Baslee has designed and manufactured over 60 planes in this Holden, Missouri, workshop, which are sold primarily to vintage airplane enthusiasts and movie studios. Two of his planes will be featured in a biographical film about Amelia Earhart titled "Amelia."
Date: 2009-10-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Municipal Airport, Terminal
Description: Looking northeast, image shows original Municipal Airport terminal with TWA and other airplanes on taxiway and unpaved area in foreground. Midcontinent Airlines building is also visible on the left.
Object Type: Negative

Title: Airplanes
Description: Two photographs of planes over Kansas City Municipal Airport. One is a Braniff airliner, the other TWA.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Municipal Airport
Description: Low, aerial view of Municipal Airport, looking toward the south with the Kansas City, Missouri skyline in view. A portion of the runway and the airport terminal building are visible as well as various airplanes on the ground. The Broadway Bridge, 2nd Hannibal Bridge and ASB Bridge can be seen crossing the Missouri River.
Date: 1970~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: NAT U.S. Mail Airplane
Description: Men handle mail bags while pilot looks on from National Air Transport U.S. Mail Express airplane.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Municipal Airport
Description: View of Kansas City's Municipal Airport looking toward the northeast. The airport terminal building is in view as well as a portion of the runway. Several prop airplanes can be seen, including at least one TWA airplane.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: TWA Airplane
Description: Photograph of an airplane in a hangar at the TWA Overhaul Base, Fairfax Airport.
Date: 1946
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 100 Years of Aviation
Description: Entire issue of Gateway Heritage devoted to flight. Includes primary sources such as letters by the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh. Chapters are: How We Made The First Flight; To Octave Chanute, Esq.; Lighter Than Air; Nerve and Cold Courage; Well Known in Aviation Circles; The Tuskegee Experiment; Mr. Mac: Sanford N. McDonnell; A Pilot's Story; The Eagle Flies (Irv Burrows recounts his role as the test pilot of the F-15 Eagle). Heavy emphasis on aviation in St. Louis.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

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