3D print the Kansas Aviation Museum
A free, printable model of the Kansas Aviation Museum, a terminal building with a rooftop control tower and wings on both sides, standing on an open airport site, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Kansas Aviation Museum
The Kansas Aviation Museum is in Wichita, Kansas, close to the junction of 31st South and George Washington Blvd. Glen H. Thomas designed its building, which was the terminal of Wichita Municipal Airport between 1935 and 1954. The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 1990 under the name Administration Building, and it is also called Building One.
The city bought 640 acres of prairie in 1927, land where airshows had been held since 1924. L.W. Clapp broke ground in June 1930, but the Great Depression stalled the work until Works Progress Administration money arrived in 1934, and the building was dedicated on March 31, 1935. In 1941 the airport was leased by the US Army Air Corps, which added the upper control tower. Operations began by March 1942, and wings were added on either side of the terminal. By 1944, a plane was taking off or landing every 90 seconds. Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Fred Astaire and Howard Hughes were among the people who passed through the terminal.
After World War II the airport went back to civilian use. In 1951 the US Air Force acquired it for B-47 operations and renamed it Wichita Air Force Base. Civilians could keep using it until the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport opened in 1954, when the base took the name McConnell. The Air Force kept using the building until about 1984, after which it stood vacant and partly gutted for six years or more before the museum was formed in 1990. Few museums let visitors step inside their display aircraft, and this is one of them.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 6 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 8 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 10 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Rooftop control tower
- A small control tower with slanted windows sits above the center of the building. Print friendly adapts it to the print scale; Full detail keeps it, which suits a larger print.
- Rows of tall windows
- Long wings carry many tall, narrow windows, and the front has steps and a curved section. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep these lines crisp at a small size.
- One piece with the ground
- The Kansas Aviation Museum is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Kansas Aviation Museum takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Kansas Aviation Museum is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Kansas Aviation Museum STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Kansas Aviation Museum grows with the print: about 6 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
