Editing Midwest City, Oklahoma (section)

== Economy ==
Midwest City's economic base is heavily dependent upon Federal tax dollars via [[Tinker Air Force Base]], the largest single-site employer in Oklahoma.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/tinker.htm Tinker AFB, Oklahoma], GlobalSecurity.org (accessed January 26, 2010)</ref> Other large employers include the Midwest Regional Medical Center and aerospace industry businesses affiliated with the base. The [[General Motors]] Oklahoma City Assembly plant was another major employer from its opening in 1979 until its closure in February 2006. GM closed the plant as part of a cost-savings measure. The property was later acquired by Oklahoma County and leased to Tinker Air Force Base for $1/year. Tinker renamed the facility the Tinker Aerospace Complex.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newsok.com/tinker-can-begin-work-at-gm-plantbrspan-classhl2estimates-say-move-could-bring-3000-jobs-area-economic-growth.span/article/3302519 |title=Archived copy |website=newsok.com |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714174420/http://newsok.com/tinker-can-begin-work-at-gm-plantbrspan-classhl2estimates-say-move-could-bring-3000-jobs-area-economic-growth.span/article/3302519 |archive-date=14 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

During World War II, the Midwest City [[Douglas Aircraft Company]] Plant constructed more than half of the 10,000 [[C-47 Skytrain]] U.S. Army cargo planes.<ref name="douglas">Fugate, Tally D., "[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MI010.html Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730064205/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MI010.html |date=2010-07-30 }}", ''[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/ Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531193517/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/ |date=May 31, 2010 }}'' (accessed May 26, 2010).</ref> The plant cost $24 million and rolled out its first C-47s in March 1943.<ref name="douglas" /> Some 38,000 Oklahomans labored at the plant, the majority of them women.<ref name="douglas" /> The plant closed on August 17, 1945, and was redesignated Building 3001 and transferred to the Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command on November 1, 1945 and is now the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center.<ref name="douglas" />