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Title
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Richard's Field
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Description
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Brief history of the Richards Flying Field, estabished in 1922 in Raytown, Missouri, used for military pilot training and regular airmail service and visited by Charles Lindbergh at the height of his popularity in the mid-1920s, but after declining traffic turned into in a residential subdivision in the 1950s.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Richards Field, First Kansas City Commercial Airport
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Description
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Photos and history of the first Richards Field, established in 1922 as Kansas City's first commercial airport by Major Howard Wehrle, Fred Harvey, Simpson Yeomans, Roger Crittenden, and Robert Lester, and named for Lieutenant John Richards II, a fellow Kansas Citian pilot killed in World War I. Description of the airport's becoming obsolete for "modern" airplanes of the late 1920s and being replaced by an airport in 1927 closer to downtown Kansas City, "first known as New Richards Field and then Municipal Airport," and later as Downtown Airport.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
