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Mid-America Air Museum

Aviation museum in KS, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Not to be confused with Mid America Flight Museum or Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation.

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.

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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]

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Collection

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

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