Kansas City International Airport the charge ended. A similar design can be found at the Berlin–Tegel Airport and the Cologne Bonn Airport, both in Germany. After the establishment of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), MCI was one of five airports where the TSA has experimented with using independent contractors to provide all traveler inspector services. The airport uses AKAL Security, an independent contractor which conforms to TSA's recruiting and training standards. TSA supervises these independent contractors, but they are not federal employees. In March 2010 the airport was announced as one of the first in the US to have full-body scanners with the first
Knox County Regional Airport operated by the City of Rockland until 1968. It was then turned over to Knox County and renamed "Knox County Regional Airport". Since that time, the airport has been developed, the runways expanded, and an Instrument Landing System (ILS) was installed. Knox County Regional Airport covers an area of 538 acres (218 ha) at an elevation of 56 feet (17 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 13/31 is 5,007 by 100 feet (1,526 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 4,000 by 100 feet (1,219 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2010,