Comments on: Pilots Maintain Grassroots Aviation Growth at Liberty Landing Airport

By: New Book Holds Hope for Aviation’s Future | RENT-A-PLANE

New Book Holds Hope for Aviation’s Future | RENT-A-PLANE — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:50:27 +0000

[...] Patrol in 1985. Fokkers starts, more or less, with the Great Flood of ‘93, which inundated Liberty Landing International, a grassroots private strip about 15 miles northeast of Kansas City Downtown Airport and 20 miles [...]

By: New Book Holds Hope for Aviation’s Future - Jetwhine: Aviation Buzz and Bold Opinion

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:53:50 +0000

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:33:00 +0000

For those of us happy few who grew up at this little airport with these wheatfield aviators, (okay, so it’s mostly soybeans) this airport and the extended family we aquired there is part of that larger sense of belonging everyone calls “home”. I raced go-carts with other kids around the gravel road surrounding the hangars, and learned to drive in an old cushman driving up and down the taxi-ways. We held flashlights and fetched tools and when, after I was far away in the Navy, I saw pictures of the hangars covered in water with nothing but the windsock showing, it was as if someone close to me had died. Fortunately for all of us, these happy goofballs are stubborn enough to raise from a muddy grave a home for memories worth keeping and saving..

Thanks for writing about my heros,

Mikel Lemons
aka “hot-rod”