Wichita Aircraft Plant, Kansas

Air Force Plant Number 13 was the name for a Boeing bomber assembly plant in Wichita, Kansas, built during WWII to be further inland and out of range of enemy fire, unlike most of Boeing’s production near the coast in Washington State. The Wichita plant made hundreds of B-52s and B-29s, in a building with 2.7 million square feet, next to others that total that amount again. It continued to make Boeing aircraft and parts after the war. Boeing sold it to Spirit Aerosystems in 2005, and though whole bombers are not made there anymore, Spirit still makes aircraft subassemblies for military and civilian aircraft at the plant, for companies that include Boeing. It occupies the west side of the runways at McConnell Air Force Base.