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|title=(help) - ↑ "Buckley Aircraft Airfield / Rawdon Field / Copeland Field / Beech North Airport (K31), Wichita, KS". Archived from the original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ↑ William Bushnell Stout, James Gilbert. So Away I Went!.