Kansas City Airline History Museum Locked Out Amid 12th & Oak Legal Battle

This could be an EXCELLENT resource for Kansas City . . . Sadly, local leaders & museum officials haven't been cooperating with each other for quite a few years.

Check this week's update . . .

Doors remain padlocked as museum volunteers are engaged in a legal battle with the city and an airport operator.

The Airline History Museum cites a 2005 Master lease agreement guaranteeing the museum use of Hangar 9 through 2035.

Documents show ordinances and amendments approved by the city around that time allowing them to operate rent-free as long as it remained a not-for-profit airline museum.

But in September 2019 the museum’s operator says without notice the City decided it would have to start paying rent in December of that year.

By the end of 2021 according to a judgment by a Clay County Circuit Judge that rent and utilities totaled more than $140,000.

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KC's Airline History Museum remains locked out of hangar

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - People visiting Kansas City for the NFL Draft won't be able to go the Airline History Museum at what's sure to be a busy Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport. Doors remain padlocked as museum volunteers are engaged in a legal battle with the city and an airport operator.


Airline History Museum operators locked out of their hangar at Kansas City's downtown airport

A battle brewing at Kansas City's downtown airport is starting to come to a head. The Airline History Museum's board of directors is now locked out of their hangar. Hangar nine at the downtown airport has been the home of the Airline History Museum for more than two decades.

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