Where can you see Virgil “Gus” Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft, touch a Redstone Nuclear Warhead and fill up on a charcoal grilled Cowboy cut bone-in rib eye steak? The answer is Hutchinson, Kansas. The “Salt City” and Wichita’s little brother is home of the Hutchinson Municipal Airport, the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Museum, the Underground Salt Museum and the Airport Steakhouse.
Landing at the bustling Hutchinson Municipal Airport (KHUT) is convenient and relatively easy. KHUT is a towered airfield with three runways (including two crosswind runways), a plethora of precision and non-precision instrument approaches and a centralized location just three miles from downtown. After touchdown, taxi over to Wells Aircraft (the FBO), refuel and grab one of their courtesy cars ($10). Hutchinson Muni is the perfect launching point to an aviation filled excursion into the history of the worldwide space program.
