Aviation View - Dec 2023

136 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 3, ISSUE 4 (or light-emitting diode) lights. “We’re going to get a vault building for our electrical components, like for the regulators and all that,”Fornwalt informs.“The newbeacon will go to LED for the beacon parallel taxiway for our crosswind runway. We’re working on a terminal project with a new parking lot, so there’s three big ones coming up.” That terminal project comes with a $20 million price tag. Ninety-percent of the funding will come from the Federal Aviation Administration. The local match is helping the FAA by picking up the remaining 10 percent. The project will mean a lot of newparking spaces,as the building is slated to go from 6,000 square feet to one more than triple the size: 19,000 square feet. Fornwalt says the new terminal is scheduled to open in 2025, with the new carpark to follow in ’26. Some reimbursements may be eventually involved as well, as he reveals. He adds that the airport’s perimeter fence (the result of not quite $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2019), six miles around, does a fine job keeping out deer and other critters that could pose potential runway hazards. The fence features a buried skirt. It goes beneath the ground at an angle by We get a lot of touch- and-go military aircraft. It has increased military-wise, due to the fact that we have an agreement with Vance Air Force Base (located in Enid, Okla.) for them to come and do touch-and-go’s up here with the PC-12’s Welcome to the Mid- America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas. Located on the Mid-America Regional Airport, it is Kansas’s largest air museum with over 100 aircraft on display spanning the time period of 1932 to 2018. The aircraft collection includes military aircraft from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, and the Bosnian Conflict. Our aircraft collection also includes a number of commercially manufactured general aviation aircraft, and many experimental aircraft including some famous aircraft. We have aircraft produced by Beech, Cessna, Piper, Mooney, Rearwin, Stinson, Taylorcraft, Fairchild, Piasecki, Hughes Aircraft, Bell Helicopter, North American, Grumman, Lockheed, Rockwell International, McDonnell/Douglas, Republic, and more. We are also well known for our friendly staff, and the quality of our guided tours. The average time visitors spend looking through our aircraft collection is about 3 hours however many people will spend a full day at the museum. We can tailor a guided tour to the amount of time you have available, but most guided tours are about 3 hours long and include a considerable amount of history and science in addition to showing off our aircraft. We are sure you will leave thinking it was well worth your time to visit us.