The Mid-America Air Museum is an aerospace and aircraft museum located at the Liberal Mid-America Regional AirportinLiberal, Kansas, United States.
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| Established | 1988; 36 years ago (1988)[1] |
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| Location | 2000 W 2nd Street Liberal, KS United States |
| Coordinates | 37°02′21″N 100°57′04″W / 37.0391°N 100.9512°W / 37.0391; -100.9512 |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Visitors | 12,000 / year[2] |
| Founder | Tom A. Thomas Jr. |
| Director | Bob Immell |
| Website | Mid-America-Air-Museum |
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.
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]
The Mid-America Air Museum's collection includes:[6]
