Flagpole installation inWichita, KS

Flagpoles in Wichita

The Air Capital: aircraft building and the supply trade around it, and the commercial and medical centre for the southern half of Kansas. We cover Wichita and the Sedgwick County area, including Old Town and the Douglas Avenue corridor, Delano, the Keeper of the Plains at the river confluence, Century II and the WaterWalk, Wichita State University and its Innovation Campus, McConnell Air Force Base, Eisenhower National Airport and the aircraft plants on the south and east sides.

Wind here. Wichita sits in a flat, open and unsheltered area, which works out to roughly 110 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Wichita and Sedgwick County share one zoning code, so an address on the city edge is not read against two different rulebooks. What catches people out is airport hazard zoning, which lays height limits over the ground around Eisenhower National, Colonel James Jabara, McConnell Air Force Base and the two factory airfields, Beech and Cessna. A flagpole is a structure with a height like anything else, so the address is checked against those limits before a size is settled. Underneath, most of the county is unconsolidated clay, silt, sand and gravel, deepest along the broad Arkansas River plain, so the footing is set in loose ground rather than cut into rock and spreads wider here than the same shaft would ask for on the shale further east. Old Town and Delano carry design standards over the top of the base zoning, so work there is looked at on appearance as well as on structure.

Most of the people who call us from Wichita are aircraft and machine shops, defence facilities, distribution buildings, schools and university buildings, hospitals and clinics, banks, churches, veterans posts and city and county buildings.