| Mid-America Air Museum | |
| Coordinates: | 37.0391°N -100.9512°W |
| Map Type: | Kansas#USA |
| Established: | [1] |
| Type: | Aviation museum |
| Visitors: | 12,000 / year[2] |
| Founder: | Tom A. Thomas Jr. |
| Director: | Bob Immell |
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.
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]