AVIATION IN KANSAS

04/11/2009  to  10/15/2009

Wichita is known as “The Air Capital of the World”

Exhibit from 1900 to the present time. If all you know about Kansas is wheat, meat and oil; if the words “flat” and “boring” come to mind whenever someone mentions the state, fasten your seat belt.

There will be information on America’s “First Lady of the Air”, Amelia Earhart,

A. K. Longren,

Clyde Cessna,

Jake Moellendick,

Earl Schaefer,

Matty Laird,

Jim Bede,

Walter and

Olive Ann Beech,

Bill Lear,

Octave Chanute,

aviation and the military, B-25’s to B-52’s plus much more.

Information about the airstrip in Lenexa and Overland Park.