Winfield, Kansas

======GE Aviation======
In 1951, at Strother Field, [[GE Aviation]]—an aircraft-engine division of [[General Electric]]—began producing [[General Electric J47]] jet engines for U.S. military aircraft (notably the [[Boeing B-47 Stratojet]] intercontinental bomber, built primarily in Wichita, and also built by [[Douglas Aircraft]] at [[Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa]] in neighboring Oklahoma).<ref name="aerofiles">[http://www.aerofiles.com/_boe.html "Boeing numeric, and A to BX,"] ''AEROFILES.com'' retrieved April 7, 2017</ref> Approximately 3,000 of those engines were produced at Strother by 1955.<ref name="neumann_1975" />

With the end of the Korean War, the GE factory switched to overhauling jet engine parts and accessories. In 1962, GE began overhauling and repairing entire military jet engines (particularly [[General Electric J73|J73]] and [[General Electric J85|J85]]), and related parts and accessories—ultimately processing over 6,000 jet engines between 1962 and 1975.<ref name="neumann_1975" />

With the advent of [[business jets]] in the mid-1960s—led by Wichita's [[Learjet]] (using [[General Electric CJ-610]] engines, also used on other business aircraft)—the Strother Field GE facility switched to servicing GE's business jet engines, ultimately processing over 6,000 by 1975, as the factory grew to 125,000 square feet. During those years, several hundred business jets, from around the world, flew into Strother Field to be serviced directly at the GE facility.<ref name="neumann_1975" />

Subsequently, GE's Strother facility overhauled [[General Electric J33|J33]] military engines, and [[General Electric CF6]] engines for "jumbo" jetliners.<ref name="neumann_1975" />

In 1985, GE acquired much of the abandoned Cessna facility for use in its engine-overhaul enterprise.<ref name="cessna">"152, 172RG, 185 PRODUCTION SUSPENDED, STROTHER FIELD SOLD: Cessna Facility at Strother Field sold to General Electric," July, 1985 ''Cessna Owner'' Magazine, p.142, as summarized in [http://cessna.org/documents/magazine_index.pdf "Cessna Pilots Association Magazine Article Index, August 1984-December 2011,"] retrieved April 7, 2017</ref>