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Richards Flying Field served as an Army Air Corps Reserve Field and as Kansas City, Missouri's first air terminal in 1922. The first air mail flight on the Chicago-Kansas City-Dallas route took place there on May 12, 1926. The field was named for Lt. John F. Richards II, the first Kansas City air service death in Europe during World War I, and it was renamed Ong Airport in 1943.
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