It is, in percentage terms, the most export-oriented city in the United States.
According to a study published late last month by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think-tank, nearly 28 per cent of the city’s gross metropolitan product is sold abroad. That makes it the most export-oriented in the country, just ahead of Portland, Oregon – noted for its computer and electronics companies – and San Jose in California’s Silicon Valley.
Can you say "small aircraft"?
Amazing–and it is arguable the most thoroughly landlocked city in the US as well.
Having been born and grown up in Wichita, I know that small aircraft is a big part of it, but the former Boeing facility (now Spirit Aerosystems) is about half of the industry in town (by number of employees) and they do large aircraft parts. (737 and 787 fuselages, fuselage sections of the A350, most Boeing cockpits)
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