Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport

Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Wichita
OperatorWichita Airport Authority
ServesSouth Central Kansas (Wichita/Hutchinson, Kansas)
LocationWichita, Kansas, United States[1]
OpenedMarch 31, 1935 (1935-03-31)
Elevation AMSL1,333 ft / 406.3 m
Coordinates37°39′0″N 97°25′59″W / 37.65000°N 97.43306°W / 37.65000; -97.43306
Websiteflywichita.com
Maps
FAA airport diagram
FAA airport diagram
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
1L/19R 10,302 3,140 Concrete
1R/19L 7,302 2,226 Concrete
14/32 6,301 1,921 Concrete
Statistics (2023)
Passengers1,721,990 Increase12.18%

Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (IATA: ICT, ICAO: KICT, FAA LID: ICT) is a commercial airport 7 miles (11 km) west of downtown Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Kansas. Located south of US-54 in southwest Wichita, it covers 3,248 acres (1,314 ha) and contains three runways.[2][3]

The airport is referred to as Eisenhower National Airport or by its former name Mid-Continent Airport. The airport's airport code, ICT, is also a nickname for the city.[4]

The airport was previously Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. The name was to be changed on March 31, 2015, by the city of Wichita,[5] but the official change occurred within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on November 13, 2014, for a deadline to publish new aeronautical charts and airport directories. The new terminal opened on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.[6]

Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower Airport offers flights on seven major airlines. Destinations include: Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Orlando, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Las Vegas, Destin, Phoenix, St. Louis.

The airport is named after Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. His boyhood home, museum, and Presidential Library are at the Eisenhower Presidential Center in Abilene, Kansas.

The airport is the site of the Cessna headquarters and main manufacturing plant,[7] as well as a Bombardier service center for Learjet and other business jet aircraft.[8]

  1. ^ "GNIS Detail - Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower National Airport". geonames.usgs.gov.
  2. ^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for ICT PDF, effective December 30, 2021.
  3. ^ "ICT airport data at skyvector.com". skyvector.com. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  4. ^ "Travel Translator: Your guide to the local language in Wichita". VisitWichita.com. March 29, 2021.
  5. ^ "Wichita to be restored to new airport name". kansas.
  6. ^ "First flight departs new Eisenhower Airport terminal". KWCH 12. Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  7. ^ "The Center for Land Use Interpretation". clui.org. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  8. ^ "Wichita Service Centre". Bombardier Business Aircraft. Retrieved May 11, 2018.

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