page_title: Strother Field
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Strother Field / History
caption_attribution_description: English: USGS digital orthophoto of Strother Field, an airport in Kansas
context_page_description: Strother Field is a public airport located in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is located five nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Winfield and north of Arkansas City. The airport is jointly owned by both cities. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
context_section_description: An airport, jointly owned by Arkansas City and Winfield, was under construction in April 1942 when the United States Army Air Forces indicated a need for a training airfield by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, Gulf Coast Training Center. Strother Army Airfield was rushed to completion with the first class of cadets scheduled to arrive for basic training in Vultee BT-13 Valiant aircraft on December 14, 1942.
  The 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.
caption: A 2006 orthophoto of Strother Field
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