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Mid-America Air Museum

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Established	1988; 36 years ago (1988)
Location	2000 W 2nd Street Liberal, KS United States
Type	Aviation museum
Visitors	12,000 / year
Founder	Tom A. Thomas Jr.

An external picture of the Mid-America Air Museum

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Collection

The Mid-America Air Museum's collection includes:

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