Mid-America Air Museum

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Mid-America Air Museum
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Mid-America Air Museum (the United States)
Established1988;36 years ago (1988) [1]
Location2000 W 2nd Street
Liberal, KS
United States
Coordinates 37°02′21″N100°57′04″W / 37.0391°N 100.9512°W / 37.0391; -100.9512
Type Aviation museum
Visitors12,000 / year [2]
FounderTom A. Thomas Jr.
DirectorBob Immell
Website Mid-America-Air-Museum
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The Mid-America Air Museum is an aerospace and aircraft museum located at the Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport in Liberal, Kansas, United States.

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The Mid-America Air Museum is the largest aircraft museum in Kansas. It has on display over 100 aircraft (both within the museum's primary building and on the adjacent tarmac), a gift store, and several displays of photographs and ephemera relating to the history of aviation in the region.

History

The museum is on Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport, originally known as Liberal Army Air Field that served as a B-24 Liberator training base during the Second World War. [3]

The museum is located within a hangar that formerly belonged to Beech Aircraft, where Beech produced Beech Musketeer, Beechcraft Baron, and Beechcraft Duchess light airplanes, in the 1960s and 1970s. [3] [4]

The museum started with the donation, by the late Colonel Tom Thomas, Jr., of his personal collection: over 50 aircraft (valued at over $3 million) to the City of Liberal. [1] [3]

It originally opened as the Mid America Air Group Flying Museum in 1984 in Ada, Oklahoma with 38 planes. [5]

Collection

The Mid-America Air Museum's collection includes: [6]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 "MAAM Foundation - About us". MAAM Foundation. MAAM Foundation. Archived from the original on 2015-06-30. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Boy, Michele. "Eye on Kansas - Mid America Air Museum". Eye on Kansas. Archived from the original on 2015-06-29. Retrieved 27 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. 1 2 3 Skip, Burroughs. "The Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, KS". SW Aviator. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Beechcraft "sport" B19". The Skytamer Archive. Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Johnson, James (28 June 1984). "Wartime Ace's Dream Come True: Ada Air Museum to Open with Show". Daily Oklahoman. p. 11. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  6. ↑ "Mid-America Air Museum". aviationmuseum.eu. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
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