A World-Class Repository for Aviation History

We possess many one-of-a-kind original items available nowhere else.

• Original drawings and blueprints of 1920’s and 1930’s aircraft.
• Drawings representing aircraft that initiated the commercial sales of aircraft in and around Kansas, including Wichita and Sedgwick County.
• In excess of 25,000 photographs, negatives and slides of rare aircraft dated from approximately 1927 to the present.
• FAA registration cards for all the aircraft registered in the United States from the 1920’s to 2004.
• Films of events such as first flights, factory operations, test flights and company promotions.
• Various uniforms, cloth and leather items associated with aviation.
• More than 10,000 hardcover aviation-related books – many of which are no longer in print – dating from 1905 to present. They include aircraft yearbooks, aircraft mechanics, specifications, documentation and history, including biographies.
• More than 75,000 journals, periodicals and printed matter.
• Many miscellaneous items such as wire recorders, audio tapes, vinyl records, video tape, computer media, flying helmets, jackets, coveralls, radio equipment, instruments, aircraft parts and trophies.
• More than 26 complete aviation-related collections from individuals, families or companies.
• Various posters, prints and framed paintings.
• Original drawings and blueprints of the Wichita Terminal Building – now home to the Kansas Aviation Museum.

 If you would like to donate an artifact to the museum, please set an appointment with our Curator and Director of Collections Logan Daugherty. Reach him by email at logandaugherty@kansasaviationmuseum.org

Collections Wish List

• Aircraft built and manufactured in Kansas
• Advertising for Kansas Aviation companies from the 1920s-1950s
• Furniture (Tables, Desks, Chairs and Cabinets) from the 1920s-1950s
• Decor (Lamps, Vases and, Mirrors) from the 1920s-1950s
• Lighting Fixtures from 1920s-1950s
• Everyday Objects (Tools, Radios and Musical Instruments) from the 1920s-1950s

***Items that will not be accepted due to an oversaturation in the collection***

• Paper Ephemera
• Aviation Books
• Parts Manuals
• Airplane Models
• Aircraft Instrument Gages
• Commemorative Materials
• Ash Trays
• Key Chains
• Uniforms