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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
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Title
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Raytown Society to Mark Old Flying Field Site
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Description
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Notice about the Raytown Historical Society commemorating the site of Richards Flying Field, Sunday, Sept. 23, 1979, the first Kansas City air terminal, later called Ong Airport in 1943. The former flying field was located at the southeast corner of Blue Ridge extension and Gregory which is now a residential district.
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Date
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1979
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Bill Ong
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Description
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Bill Ong and other unidentified men in aviators garb posed before biplane at Richards Field.
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Date
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1936
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Air Mail Assured by April 1, 1926
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Description
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Article about air mail routes established at Richards Field to be flown by National Air Transport, Incorporated.
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Date
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1925-11-25
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City the Airport of the Southwest
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Description
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Recent Developments in Aeronautics Mark New Era in Aerial TransportationRegular service between Kansas City and Wichita was inaugurated July 1, 1925, by the Kansas City Airways Transportation Company, by pilot E. L. Sloniger. The flight carried newspaper men as passengers. "The operating officials of this company are Edward G. Bern, President; Charles W. Brunn, General Counsel; Robert Cochrane, Chief Pilot; E. L. Sloniger, Pilot, and Harry Berger, Supervisor of Mechanics." Article discusses aviation in Kansas City and the different flying fields.
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Date
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1925-07-21
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Genealogy of the Richards Family
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Description
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Note about the naming of Richards Flying Field after John Francisco Richards and Richards-Gebaur Airport after John Francisco Richards II (a son of John Richards I killed in a World War I aerial battle), at the end of an article about the Richards family genealogy.
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Date
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1923-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Map of Clay County Missouri
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Description
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Map of Clay County, Missouri, including railroads, electric lines, roads, schools, churches, and airports. Includes townships of Platte, Kearney, Washington, Gallatin, Liberty, and Fishing River. Includes cities of Liberty, Excelsior Springs, and North Kansas City. Also includes Kansas City Co. & St. Joe Electric Line.
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Object Type
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Map
