19 calendar_today Tuesday: Open
10am to 5pm
19 calendar_today Tuesday: Open
10am to 5pm

Become a KAM Volunteer

Join the Fun – And Help Out a Good Cause

Whether you’ve devoted your life to aviation, are fascinated by history, intrigued by building restoration or just like to meet new people, we’ve got a worthwhile project that could use your help.

The Kansas Aviation Museum offers many volunteer opportunities to accommodate both weekday and weekend schedules. We provide training and materials to ensure that you will have a successful and enjoyable volunteer experience.

Here are some of the volunteer opportunities we offer-

  • Tour guide/Docent
  • Education/School Program Docent
  • Gift Shop Attendant
  • Historic aircraft restoration
  • Building restoration
  • Landscaping
  • Building/Yard Maintenance

We recognize the selfless efforts of our dedicated volunteers throughout the year. 

If you’re interested, please complete our volunteer form and let us know how you’d like to help.

 

There are many ways you can volunteer for the Kansas Aviation Museum.

Tour Guide/Docent

We need volunteer docents to interact with our various guests, especially on weekends.

As a tour guide, you’ll likely meet people from every corner of the world, all interested in the story of Kansas aviation. They could be members of a local Scout troop, school children on a field trip, a family on vacation from another state or executives from another country.

Since we opened in 1991, we’ve had visitors from all 50 states and from all over the world, including Antarctica. As a museum tour guide, you can be right there to meet these interesting folks, sharing the fascinating history of Kansas aviation and the story of our beautiful building.

Training is provided for all tour guide/docents.

Education - School Program Docent

 

Our education programs are possible because of volunteers who enjoy working with children. There are several areas within the Education Department to volunteer:

  • Classroom Teaching and Activities
  • Educational Tour Guides/Outreach
  • Storytellers for our Preschool Program
  • Learning Center

The educational tour volunteers are vital in helping to grow our education department. All volunteers will go through a docent training program.

Gift Shop Attendant

The Kansas Aviation Museum gift shop offers volunteer opportunities during the week. Our gift shop sells a variety of aviation-themed items. Gift Shop attendants will assist with sales, stocking, and keeping the gift shop and lobby clean and attractive to our museum guests. This is the first point of contact for most of our guests so the gift shop attendants need to have strong customer service skills. Prior cashier skills are valued but we are happy to train if needed.

If you would like to volunteer in the gift shop but do not want the responsibility of register duties, we are happy to have your help in stocking shelves, folding museum brochures, assisting guests with questions about where the exhibits are in the museum, and light cleaning duties in the gift shop and lobby area.

Historic Aircraft Restoration

Hands-on aircraft restoration opportunities – from general maintenance to highly technical work – await those with the requisite expertise and interest. We are home to a variety of general aviation and military aircraft and always have restoration projects ongoing that need care by dedicated and skilled individuals.

Building Maintenance

Just imagine walking into our lobby and instantly stepping back into the 1930s when air travel was new and exciting. That’s the vision we have, and we’re not stopping until that vision is realized. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum’s home is the original Wichita Municipal Airport terminal. The exterior of this grand art deco building and most of the interior has been restored, but we need help to keep it maintained.

Possible projects include:

  • Painting
  • Wall repair
  • General maintenance and upkeep of historic building

 

We can always use volunteers who are “handy” to help with projects around our building.