KMBC 9 NEWS APP. ONE OF NATION’S MOST HONORED AND ACCOMPLISHED TUSKEGEEE AIRMEN BRIGADIER GENERAL CHLEARS E. MCGEE HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 102. KMBC 9’S JACKSON RTKUZ SPOKE TO A FRIEND ABOUT THE GENERAL’S CLOSE TIES TO KANSAS CITY. >> EVERYBODY CALLED HIM COLONEL, AND THEN FINALLY ONE DAY HE COMES IN AND SAYS, ’YOU GOTTA QUIT CALLIN ME COLONEL, I’M MAC. REPORT:ER SINCE THEIR DSAY WORKING TOGETHER AT THE DOWNTOWN AIRPORT IN KANSAS CITY IN THE EARLY 1980’S, THEY HAVE REMAINED FRIENDS. >> HE TAUGHT ME A WHOLE LOT. REPORTER: A LIFE LONG FRIENDSHIP, WHICH IS WHY MCGEE’S PASSING SUNDAY STILL CAME AS A SURPRISE. >> TODAY WAS KINDA A SHOCK FOR ME, THE MAN WAS A REAL, UETR GENTLEMAN. REPORTER: MCGEE’S CAREER WAS ONE OF LEGEND, HE WAS ONE OF THE LAST LIVING TUSKGEE AIRMEN, BLACK PILOTS WHO FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR .II PLUS SERNGVI 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE SERVICE, BEGINNING WITH THE ARMY AIR FORCE. >> THE FACT THAT HE WAS ABLE TO DO OVER 400 COMBAT MISSIONS, BETWEEN 3 WARS, THERE’S NOT VERY MANY IF ANY OF PILOTS IN THEIR A FORCE WHO WERE ABLE TO DO THAT. REPORTER: MCGEE’S KANSASIT CY TIES ARE STRONG. HE WAS STATIONED AT RICHARDS-GEBAUR AIR FORCE BASE AR GNERANDVIEW DURING THE 1950S AND BECAME THE FIRST BLACK COMMANDER OF THE BASE 12.IN ONE YEAR LATER, HE MOVED BACK TO THE KANS CASITY AREA WHERE HE SERVED AS MANAGER OF THE KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN AIRPORT AND LATER ON THE KANSACIS TY AVIATION DEPARTMENT’S AVIATION ADVISORY COUNCIL. >> IF KANSAS CITY HAD AN AVIATION HALL OF FAME, HE WODUL DEFINITELY BE A MEMBER OF THAT GROUP. REPORT:ER HE DID THE COINOSS T AT THE SUPER BOWL WHEN THE CHIEFS TOOK THE TITLE IN 2020. AND LAST YEAR, IT WAS ANNOUNCED THE GENERAL AVIATION TERMINAATL CHARLES B WHEELER DOWNTOWN AIRPORT WOULD BE RENAMED IN HIS HOR.NO >> GENERAL MCGEE WAS PROBAYBL ONE OF THE NESTIC GENTLEMEN I’VE EVER MET IN MY WHOLE LE.IF HE WILL BE MISSED. REPORT:ER A PIECE OF LEGACY T