PIREP: Combat Air Museum in Topeka, KS

They lost their airline service -- a Beech 1900 that only flew to Kansas
City -- this past spring, and are desperately trying to lure them back.


Topeka and airline service has been an ongoing battle since 1969. Had the
interesting experience of being the Captain of the first Air Mdwest flight
connecting Witchita, Topeka, and Kansas City with a Beech 99. It never was a
paying/profitable situation but AM linked "The air capitol with the state
capitol".

I can still hear the speech that Ray Arvin, Kansas Director of Aviation, made,
"Today is the beginning of connecting Topeka to the world by air". AM dropped
Topeka two years later when the state funding ran out.

Walt