The airport is on the north side of the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri River . Levees protected the airport relatively well during the Great Flood of 1951 and the Great Flood of 1993 although there was standing water . The 1951 flood devastated the Fairfax airport and caused Kansas City to build what would become Kansas City International Airport away from the river to keep the TWA overhaul base in the area after it had been destroyed in the flood at Fairfax
Great Flood of 1993
Great Flood of 1993
Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport