a city in western Arizona, USA, named after Lewis Kingman, an engineer who in 1880 ran a railway line through the area. The railroad placed the town in a position of importance and in 1929 it became the site of the first transcontinental airport in Arizona. In the 1940s the US Army established an airfield in Kingman and used it as a trainingarea, following which it was used as a storage depot for planes being scrapped.