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The Mid-America Air Museum is an aerospace and aircraft museum located in Liberal, Kansas, United States.

Mid-America Air Museum

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Established	1988; 34 years ago (1988)[1]
Location	2000 W 2nd Street Liberal, KS United States
Coordinates	37°02′21″N 100°57′04″W
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.

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]

Collection

The Mid-America Air Museum's collection includes:[5]

See also

• Liberal Army Air Field
• Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport
• Cosmosphere in Hutchinson
• Combat Air Museum in Topeka
• Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita
• Kansas World War II army airfields
• List of aerospace museums
• List of museums in Kansas

References

External links

• Kansas Travel-Mid-America Air Museum - photos and candid review
• A collection of museum photos

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