Colonel James Jabara Airport

Colonel James Jabara Airport
Colonel James Jabara Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: KAAO; FAA LID: AAO;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Wichita Airport Authority
Location	Wichita, Kansas
Elevation AMSL	1,421 ft / 433 m
Coordinates	37°44′51″N 097°13′16″W / 37.74750°N 97.22111°W
Map
	AAO Location of airport in Kansas AAO AAO (the United States)
Runways
Helipads
Statistics
Aircraft operations (2019)
Aircraft operations (2019)	38,300
Based aircraft (2021)	113
	Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Colonel James Jabara Airport (ICAO: KAAO, FAA LID: AAO) is a public airport located nine miles (14 km) northeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.^[1] It is named in honor of World War II and Korean War flying ace James Jabara, an American of Lebanese descent who has the distinction of being the first American jet ace.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Colonel James Jabara Airport is assigned AAO by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned AAO to Anaco Airport in Anaco, Venezuela).^[2]^[3]

^ ^a ^b FAA Airport Form 5010 for AAO PDF, effective November 4, 2021
^ Swartz, Karl L. "Great Circle Mapper: KAAO - Wichita, Kansas (Colonel James Jabara Airport)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
^ Swartz, Karl L. "Great Circle Mapper: AAO / SVAN - Anaco, Venezuela". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2013-05-21.

[FAA-1] FAA Airport Form 5010 for AAO PDF, effective November 4, 2021

[2] Swartz, Karl L. "Great Circle Mapper: KAAO - Wichita, Kansas (Colonel James Jabara Airport)". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2013-05-21.

[3] Swartz, Karl L. "Great Circle Mapper: AAO / SVAN - Anaco, Venezuela". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2013-05-21.

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