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Topeka Regional Airport

Index Topeka Regional Airport

Topeka Regional Airport, formerly known as Forbes Field, is a public airport owned by the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority in Shawnee County, Kansas, seven miles south of downtown Topeka, the capital city of Kansas. [1]

51 relations: Acre, Air Materiel Command, Air Midwest, Air National Guard, Air taxi, Aircraft engine, Airline, Airport, Alabama, Allegiant Air, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, Calendar year, Capital city, Continental Air Forces, Elevation, Essential Air Service, FAA airport categories, Federal Aviation Administration, General aviation, Hectare, Helicopter, Jet aircraft, Kansas, Kansas Air National Guard, Kansas Army National Guard, Kansas City International Airport, Kansas Turnpike, Lawrence, Kansas, Maxwell Air Force Base, McCarran International Airport, Military aircraft, Military aviation, National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, O'Hare International Airport, Orthophoto, Philip Billard Municipal Airport, Runway, Sea level, Second Air Force, Shawnee County, Kansas, Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command, The National Map, Topeka, Kansas, United Express, United States Department of Transportation, United States Geological Survey, University of Kansas, US Airways Express, 108th Aviation Regiment (United States), ..., 190th Air Refueling Wing. Expand index (1 more) »

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.

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Air Materiel Command

Air Materiel Command (AMC) was a United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force command.

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Air Midwest

Air Midwest, Inc., was a Federal Aviation Administration Part 121 certificated air carrier that operated under air carrier certificate number AMWA510A issued on May 15, 1965.

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Air National Guard

The Air National Guard (ANG), also known as the Air Guard, is a federal military reserve force as well as the militia air force of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Air taxi

An air taxi is a small commercial aircraft which makes short flights on demand.

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Aircraft engine

An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power.

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Airline

An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Allegiant Air

Allegiant Air (usually shortened to Allegiant and stylized as allegiant) is an American low-cost airline that operates scheduled and charter flights.

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Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a military aerial refueling aircraft.

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Calendar year

Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day, and thus consists of a whole number of days.

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Capital city

A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.

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Continental Air Forces

Continental Air Forces (CAF) was a United States Army Air Forces major command at the end of World War II and during the early Cold War for combat training of bomber and fighter personnel and for Continental United States (CONUS) air defense after the Aircraft Warning Corps and Ground Observer Corps were placed in standby during 1944.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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Essential Air Service

Essential Air Service (EAS) is a U.S. government program enacted to guarantee that small communities in the United States, which, before deregulation, were served by certificated airlines, maintained commercial service.

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FAA airport categories

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a system for categorizing public-use airports (along with heliports and other aviation bases) that is primarily based on the level of commercial passenger traffic through each facility.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors.

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Jet aircraft

A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by jet engines (jet propulsion).

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Kansas Air National Guard

The Kansas Air National Guard (KS ANG) is the air force militia of the State of Kansas, United States of America.

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Kansas Army National Guard

The Kansas Army National Guard is a component of the Army National Guard and the Kansas National Guard.

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Kansas City International Airport

Kansas City International Airport (originally Mid-Continent International Airport) is a public airport 15 miles (24 km) northwest of downtown Kansas City in Platte County, Missouri.

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Kansas Turnpike

The Kansas Turnpike is a, freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County and sixth largest city in Kansas.

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Maxwell Air Force Base

Maxwell Air Force Base, officially known as Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation under the Air Education and Training Command (AETC).

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McCarran International Airport

McCarran International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Las Vegas Valley, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Military aircraft

A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type.

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Military aviation

Military aviation is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of conducting or enabling aerial warfare, including national airlift (air cargo) capacity to provide logistical supply to forces stationed in a theater or along a front.

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National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems

The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) is an inventory of U.S. aviation infrastructure assets.

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O'Hare International Airport

O'Hare International Airport, usually referred to as O'Hare Airport, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is an international airport located on the far Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois, northwest of the Loop business district, operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation and covering.

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Orthophoto

An orthophoto, orthophotograph or orthoimage is an aerial photograph or image geometrically corrected ("orthorectified") such that the scale is uniform: the photo has the same lack of distortion as a map.

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Philip Billard Municipal Airport

Philip Billard Municipal Airport is a public airport three miles (5 km) northeast of downtown Topeka, the capital city of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County.

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Runway

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Second Air Force

The Second Air Force (2 AF; 2d Air Force in 1942) is a USAF numbered air force responsible for conducting basic military and technical training for Air Force enlisted members and non-flying officers.

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Shawnee County, Kansas

Shawnee County (county code SN) is a county located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States of America.

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Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "nuclear triad," with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy).

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Tactical Air Command

Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization.

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The National Map

The National Map is a collaborative effort of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and other federal, state, and local agencies to improve and deliver topographic information for the United States.

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Topeka, Kansas

Topeka (Kansa: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County.

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United Express

United Express is the brand name for the regional branch of United Airlines, under which nine individually owned regional airlines operate short- and medium-haul feeder flights.

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United States Department of Transportation

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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University of Kansas

The University of Kansas, also referred to as KU or Kansas, is a public research university in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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US Airways Express

US Airways Express was the brand name for the regional affiliate of US Airways, under which a number of individually owned commuter air carriers and regional airlines operate short and medium haul routes.

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108th Aviation Regiment (United States)

The 108th Aviation Regiment is an aviation regiment of the U.S. Army.

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190th Air Refueling Wing

The 190th Air Refueling Wing (190 ARW) is a unit of the Kansas Air National Guard, stationed at Forbes Field Air National Guard Base, Topeka, Kansas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topeka_Regional_Airport

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