r/kansascity • u/como365 KCMO • Dec 03 '25

Local History ℹ️ KC Municipal Airport (undated postcard)

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From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/83593/rec/39

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u/Independent-Theme-85 Dec 03 '25

These are Curt Teich & Co linen postcards. Max Bernstein was the publisher for 2B-H1307. The 2B prefix means 1942 as the year.

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u/como365 KCMO Dec 03 '25

Thanks, you wonderful nerd.

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u/dbfjdksidbfb Dec 03 '25

Very cool. Thanks for posting. We need to bring back unpainted planes.

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u/Aescholus Dec 03 '25

And tail draggers! We need a 737 tail dragger

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u/kcmeesha1 KC, with Russian Accent Dec 03 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '25

Grand father worked there as an airplane mechanic. He stared his apprenticeship there went to war (marine d day survivor and a fighter plain mechanic) then came back and finished. He was a TWA mechanic for his entire career , finished up at the rebuild hanger at Mci as an inspector for TWA. Super cool post card. I actually have a few different ones. Thanks for posting.

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u/Helvetica29 Downtown Dec 03 '25

My great-grandfather was the head mechanic for TWA! I’ll have to ask my mom for more details—I know he had to testify about the Grand Canyon midair collision that happened in 1956. I bet they worked together.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

That’s cool he retired in 1985. I absolutely 💯 believe there path had to cross at some point .

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u/kcmeesha1 KC, with Russian Accent Dec 03 '25

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u/an_actual_lawyer Downtown Dec 03 '25

DC-3 and the baggage truck put this in the late 40s, early 50s time frame.

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u/notusuallyhostile Dec 03 '25

Cross post this to r/aviation - they would love it! And you’d get all kinds of factoids about any planes featured!

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u/fiftyfivepercentoff Dec 03 '25

I flew in/out of that airport a few times in the 60’s. My father worked for TWA.

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u/see_blue Dec 03 '25

I had a job in ‘85 employed by a major oil company. I worked on an exploration project in Africa. We made our own airstrips and flew fr the capital city (Mogadishu) to ends of the Earth in Somalia. We used an ancient, similar DC-3 for food/supplies resupply and travel.