Strother Field
title: "Strother Field" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["airports-in-kansas", "buildings-and-structures-in-cowley-county,-kansas", "1942-establishments-in-kansas", "airports-established-in-1942"] topic_path: "general/airports-in-kansas" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strother_Field" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Strother Field |
| nativename | (formerly Strother Army Airfield) |
| image | Strother Field aerial view.JPG |
| image-width | 250 |
| caption | Looking northeast in 2017 |
| IATA | WLD |
| ICAO | KWLD |
| FAA | WLD |
| type | Public |
| owner | Cities of Winfield & Arkansas City |
| city-served | Winfield / Arkansas City, Kansas |
| location | Pleasant Valley Township / Beaver Township, Cowley County |
| elevation-f | 1,160 |
| coordinates | |
| pushpin_map | USA Kansas |
| pushpin_mapsize | 250 |
| pushpin_label | WLD |
| r1-number | 17/35 |
| r1-length-f | 5,506 |
| r1-surface | Asphalt |
| r2-number | 13/31 |
| r2-length-f | 3,137 |
| r2-surface | Asphalt |
| stat-year | 2021 |
| stat1-header | Aircraft operations (year ending 5/21/2021) |
| stat1-data | 6,500 |
| stat2-header | Based aircraft |
| stat2-data | 18 |
| footnotes | Source: Federal Aviation Administration |
| :: |
| name = Strother Field | nativename = (formerly Strother Army Airfield) | image = Strother Field aerial view.JPG | image-width = 250 | caption = Looking northeast in 2017 | IATA = WLD | ICAO = KWLD | FAA = WLD | type = Public | owner = Cities of Winfield & Arkansas City | operator = | city-served = Winfield / Arkansas City, Kansas | location = Pleasant Valley Township / Beaver Township, Cowley County | elevation-f = 1,160 | website = | coordinates = | pushpin_map = USA Kansas | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_label = WLD | r1-number = 17/35 | r1-length-f = 5,506 | r1-surface = Asphalt | r2-number = 13/31 | r2-length-f = 3,137 | r2-surface = Asphalt | stat-year = 2021 | stat1-header = Aircraft operations (year ending 5/21/2021) | stat1-data = 6,500 | stat2-header = Based aircraft | stat2-data = 18 | footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration
Strother Field is a public airport in Cowley County, Kansas, six miles southwest of Winfield and north of Arkansas City. The airport is jointly owned by the two cities. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility.
History
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| name = Strother Field Tetrahedron Wind Indicator | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location = 22215 Tupper St., Winfield, Kansas | built = | architect OR builder = | architecture = | added = April 14, 2015 | area = Less than one acre | refnum = 15000143
Military use of Strother Field ended in October 1945 and it was turned over for civil use. Today, the site is Strother Field and Industrial Park. Remaining wartime structures include the runways, two hangars, two link training buildings, a tetrahedron wind cone, two ruins sites and a building of unknown original use.
The airport is named for Donald Root Strother, the first Army Air Corps pilot from Cowley County, Kansas to lose his life in World War II. His older brother Dean C. Strother became a four-star general in the United States Air Force.
Winfield had scheduled Central Airlines flights in 1950–53. on Bonanzas, then DC-3s.
The Strother Field Tetrahedron Wind Indicator was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Facilities
Strother Field covers 1,656 acres (670 ha) at an elevation of 1,160 feet (354 m). It has two asphalt runways: 17/35 is 5,506 by 100 feet (1,678 x 30 m) and 13/31 is 3,137 by 75 feet (956 x 23 m).
Strother field's industrial park includes a jet engine maintenance and manufacturing facility for GE Aviation.
In the year ending May 21, 2021, the airport had 6,500 general aviation aircraft operations, average 125 per week. 18 aircraft were then based at the airport: all single-engine.
References
References
- {{FAA-airport
- "IATA Airport Code Search (WLD: Winfield / Arkansas City)". [[International Air Transport Association]].
- (October 4, 2010). "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A". Federal Aviation Administration.
- (May 1, 2015). "Weekly listings". [[National Park Service]].
- Shawn M. McGrew. (2015). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Strother Field Tetrahedron Wind Indicator / KHRI # 035-311". Kansas State Historic Society.
- "USAAF - Strother Army Air Field".
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