Kansas Business- From Aircraft To Agriculture

Kansas is a large farming state in the Midwest,Major company headquarters in Kansas include
with a population of about 2.6 million people. Itsthe Sprint Nextel Corporation, and Embarq, in
largest city is Wichita, with a metropolitan areaOverland Park. Sprint Nextel is the third largest
population of over 500,000. Wichita has historicallywireless phone network, with over 53 million
been a center of the aircraft manufacturingsubscribers. It also has the largest broadband
industry and still has thousands of jobs in this field.network, and is a major employer in Kansas.
Topeka is the capital of Kansas. The secondEmbarq is formerly the local telephone branch of
largest city is Overland Park, a suburb of KansasSprint Nextel and is the fourth largest local
City, Missouri. Kansas City, Kansas is the thirdexchange telephone company in the United
largest city, of about 146,000, just across theStates. YRC Company is a conglomerate involved
Missouri River from Kansas City, Missouri. Kansasin transportation, based in Overland Park. Payless
City, KS has a Chevrolet plant. Much of theShoes has a major distribution center in Topeka,
manufacturing base of Kansas is still intact. So youthe capital of Kansas.
have some options in your Kansas IncorporationSpirit AeroSystems, Inc., based in Wichita, Kansas,
The agricultural production of the state includeis the world's largest aero structures
wheat, in which it is number one and cattle,manufacturer. The company builds several
sheep, sorghum, soybeans, cotton, hogs, andimportant pieces of Boeing aircraft, including the
corn. The industrial outputs are transportationfuselage of the 737, portions of the 787 fuselage,
equipment, commercial and private aircraft, foodand the cockpit of nearly all of its airliners. It was
processing, chemical products, machinery,spun off of Boeing Corporation when Boeing sold
petroleum and mining. Kansas ranks 8th in U.S. oilits Wichita division to the investment firm Onex.
production and in natural gas production. IncreasedBoeing Integrated Defense Systems retained its
coal-bed methane production contributed tomilitary business in Wichita, which lies next door.
maintaining natural gas production. In terms ofCessna Aircraft Company, headquartered in
hunting and fishing, there are plenty ofWichita, Kansas, is a manufacturer of general
opportunities in Kansas. The eastern portion ofaviation aircraft, from small two-seat, single-engine
the state has large numbers of white-tailed deeraircraft to business jets.
and also a smaller number of elk. The mostIn 1992, Textron Inc. bought Cessna. The defense
favored fish in the state are flathead and channelcontractor, Raytheon also had a large plant in
catfish, which can be found in most of the 24Kansas, which was sold to a partnership formed
reservoirs in the state. There are three majorby Toronto-based Onex and Wall Street
rivers in the state, the Arkansas, the Missouri andinvestment bank Goldman Sachs. The $3.3 billion
the Kansas, which are navigable and open to thedeal creates Hawker Beechcraft Corp. and
public.includes Raytheon facilities in Salina, KS.