Group moving TWA Moonliner II rocket to TWA Museum at Downtown Airport

The TWA Moonliner II rocket that’s been at the Airline History Museum is moving to a new home.

Later this month, crews are set to move the Moonliner II from the closed Airline History Museum to the TWA Museum at the Kansas City Airport – Wheeler Field.

The Moonliner II was first displayed at the TWA headquarters between 1956 and the early 1960s. In 1962, it was sold to a travel trailer company in Concordia, Missouri.

Many years later, it was purchased by Columbia, Missouri-native Dan Viets, who restored it and painted to the original TWA colors before loaning it to the Airline History Museum in 1997…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS