Mid-America Air Museum

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]

• 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