Edna Municipal Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Hosted an NHRA regional championship on July 3-4, 1954, won by Melvin Heath at 125.88 mph
- Raced
- 1953-54, 1957-58
- State
- Kansas
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- Runways still there in poor condition
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- Location
- World War II auxiliary landing field north of Edna
- People
- Kansas City Timing Association, race organizer (1953-54)
- Ozark Timing Association, race organizer (1957-58)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 928 ft (283 m)
- Coordinates
- 37.12789, -95.34794
The Kansas City Timing Association held occasional drag races at this World War II auxiliary landing field north of Edna, including a two-day event on October 3-4, 1953 (photos in Hot Rod, May 1954, p. 38). The strip hosted an NHRA regional championship on July 3-4, 1954, where Melvin Heath won top eliminator at 125.88 mph in his ‘52 Chrysler-powered alcohol dragster. In 1957 the Ozark Timing Association of Springfield, Missouri, raced there on the second and fourth Sundays, starting April 14, when 700 spectators watched 87 racers. In 1958 they raced on the first and third Sundays. The field had three runways, each 4,000 feet long and 100 feet wide, with two connecting taxiways. It closed to air traffic sometime between 1979 and 1982, and the runways are still there in bad shape.
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