Westport Airport is a privately owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States—and is in the Class C airspace of neighboring Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport.Westport—popularly known as Dead Cow International -- hosts, fuels and maintains light aircraft, services and sells parts for Cessna cropdusters, and is a center for restoration and operation of vintage aircraft.Facilities and aircraftWestport Airport covers an area of 32 acres (13 ha) at an elevation of 1,290 feet (393 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 17/35 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,520 by 30 feet (768 x 9 m). Southbound, the runway (Runway 17) has a 400-foot displaced threshold, owing to a powerline, thoroughfare and buildings immediately north of the field. Northbound, the runway (Runway 35) has a powerline near its end, and requires a right-hand traffic pattern, minimizing interference with Wichita Eisenhower Airport traffic to the west.The 30-foot wide runway is asphalt (with surface cracks, and with grass encroaching on the sites), and is only officially reported as rated for 3,000-pound gross weight aircraft with single-wheel landing gear. However, larger single-wheel aircraft (e.g. Beech 18, Cessna T-50) have been based there.
