Winfield, Kansas

======Cessna======
In 1967, [[Cessna Aircraft Company]], the world's highest-volume producer of aircraft (mostly light aircraft, at the time) addressed booming demand for their smallest, most-popular aircraft, by opening a Cessna factory at Strother Field. Initially, the factory produced the [[Cessna 150]], at that time the world's most popular two-seat light aircraft (the world's dominant pilot-training aircraft for several decades).<ref name="legend">Rodengen, Jeffrey L., book: ''The Legend of Cessna,'' 2007, Write Stuff Enterprises, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, p.135.</ref><ref name="mass">
[https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1975/1975%20-%200078.PDF "U. S. Mass-Produced Aeroplane,"] January 9, 1975, ''Flight International,'' as photo-reproduced at ''FlightGlobal.com,'' (PDF) retrieved April 7, 2017</ref>

In 1975, Cessna also began to move the assembly of the world's most popular light aircraft, the [[Cessna 172]], from its Wichita factory to Strother Field.<ref name="legend" />

Several thousand of both aircraft models were produced at Strother Field (making it a globally major aircraft factory complex, in total unit production). The factory employed several hundred to a few thousand workers until the 1980s Recession and other factors crashed the market for light aircraft, and Cessna, following layoffs of 700 workers at Strother Field, eventually shut down the Strother Field factory in the early 1980s.<ref name="cessna_shut">Associated Press, [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/17/business/cessna-will-shut-plant-6-weeks.html "Cessna Will Shut Plant 6 Weeks"], March 17, 1982, ''New York Times,'' retrieved April 7, 2017</ref>