Fairfax Field

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rdf:langString Fairfax Field

rdf:langString Fairfax Field

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rdf:langString Northward view of the air base in World War II after the modification center was built along the south taxiway.

rdf:langString FUDS - WRD

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rdf:langString August 2014

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rdf:langString Located on Goose Island, Kansas, at the state line on the Missouri River west of North Kansas City, Missouri

rdf:langString tbd: 20px Air Transport Command

rdf:langString What did the modification center do after it stopped modifications and was an adjunct?

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rdf:langString Kansas City military sites in Missouri

rdf:langString Fairfax Field was a wartime (WWII) facility of the United States Army Air Forces and later, the United States Air Force. The installation was north of Kansas City, Kansas. Used as a pre-war Naval Air Station, the United States Army Air Forces leased the municipal airfield and built an and modification center for North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber production. Military use of the site continued as late as 1957 by the Strategic Air Command's 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group for bombing practice. Kansas City military sites in Missouri Kansas City, Missouri, had military activities beginning as early as 1919 when the city was part of a recruiting campaign in which "seventeen flying fields, one repair depot, and five balloon stations" took part. In 1923 the Air Service's southern division of the used an airfield in the city for an Army air route to Kelly Field, Texas; and by the end of 1925, the "403th [sic] " was assigned to a Kansas City facility (the Air Service leased the land for the airdrome in Kansas City, Missouri, with steel hangars for $1/year.) In 1940, the USGS mapped the "State Boundary" as a straight north-south line demarcating a small eastern portion of "Fairfax Airport" as being in Missouri. By the end of 1942, Kansas City, Missouri, had a modification center--in addition to the Fairfax plant and modification center in Kansas. On 2 March 1945, Military Air Transport moved an air freight terminal to Fairfax from Kansas City, Missouri. The USAF Central Air Defense Force (CADF) was activated with headquarters at Kansas City, Missouri, on 1 March 1951; on 24 April the Central Army Antiaircraft Command was "established with HQ at Kansas City" (organized 1 May 1951); and on 1 July the USAF 35th Air Division was activated at Kansas City (moved to Dobbins Air Force Base in September). The 4602d Squadron--after being assigned to Peterson Field on 1 March 1952--had its Flight B assigned with "Defense Force Headquarters [at] Kansas City, Missouri". While Grandview Air Force Base was being completed, on 1 October 1952 Kansas City, Missouri, had CADF's , and the NSA's Special Study Group met on 1 August 1953 at "Headquarters, Central Air Defense Force, Kansas City, Missouri". Grandview Air Force BaseOn 24 February 1954, HQ CADF moved to Grandview Air Force Base outside the city limits, but the land was owned by the Kansas City, Missouri government (from whom the USAF leased the airport on 1 January 1952--the "USAF accepted responsibility for [the base's] land and buildings" in January 1953.