Mite of the Month for November, 2004


N4140, serial number 307, is owned and displayed by the Mid-America Air Museum* of Liberal, Kansas.*




Photos courtesy of Don Westfall, curator. Map courtesy of Microsoft Streets & Trips.
From sparse material, we have re-constructed the ownership history of N4140 as follows: John D. Wilson of Macungie, PA in 1963 Joseph Fife of Bridgeville, PA in 1967. J.W. Findley of Pittsburg, PA from 1967 to 1974. Sold by Milford Kirkpatrick of Temple, Texas to Darren L. Kight of Tucson, Arizona in June, 1984. A Certificate of Registration was issued to the ADA Aircraft Museum Inc. of Oklahoma City on July 23, 1984, which owned it until at least 1994. It was donated to the Museum by Col. Tom Thomas, Jr. of the Mid America Air Group, Oklahoma City, in 1997.