To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force, Dean Cutshall will be bringing an extremely rare F-100 to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022 this July.
The creativity and spirit of our network of EAA chapters and members was on full display in the Blue Barn during a very successful EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021.
If you had asked aviation enthusiasts to imagine a year without AirVenture, they would have told you it’s unimaginable. It took a worldwide pandemic to cancel every aviator’s pilgrimage in ... Read more
Each year as I arrive in Oshkosh a few days before the start of AirVenture, one of my self-indulgent pleasures is to make the EAA Aviation Museum my first stop.
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh’s Lost and Found has reunited many convention visitors with things like lost cameras, wallets, and cell phones. But on Friday night, July 30, they made their most ... Read more
Warbird Coffee Co., founded by Royal Air Force veterans Adam Berry and Jon Short in November 2020, sells a series of coffee blends that help in the restoration of warbirds.
About 40 family and friends from Monterrey, Mexico, arrived on the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 grounds before the start of the annual fly-in convention last Friday.
While working security and directing pedestrians and vehicles may not seem like the most exciting job on the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 grounds, don’t tell that to Jake Grainger and ... Read more
Donald McPherson came to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 to get with a special friend from the past. Parked on the Warbird ramp is a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat restored exactly like ... Read more
With winds picking up to 90 mph gusts and pilots tightening airplane straps in the stillness of the airport, campers at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 sought shelter at the EAA ... Read more
“It’s just an airplane.” That’s how the late Jack Bally, EAA 348338, a lifelong pilot and builder, described his one-third scale replica of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress — just ... Read more
Whether you call it swag, freebies, loot, or promotional items, one thing is clear at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 — if you like things that are free, you’re in the ... Read more
Even though this is Jase “The Ace” Dussia’s fourth year performing at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the 3D RC flyer acknowledges he still gets a bit anxious.
By Frederick A. Johnsen Ben Howard used the nomenclature DGA for his airplane designs for years. By the time the executive Howard DGA-15 hit the market in 1939, it ... Read more
You can learn interesting stories about Paul and Audrey Poberezny, as well as see the 9-acre grounds that they once called home as part of the Poberezny Legacy Tour.
With so many aircraft around the grounds, it can be easy to miss a single airplane. However, one you won’t want miss is Howard and Linda Plevyak’s Stoddard Hamilton GlaStar, ... Read more
Meet Steve Morse, EAA 223710. That name might be familiar to you, if you are familiar with the Dixie Dregs, Kansas, or Deep Purple — but around Oshkosh, Steve is ... Read more
A pristine Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat World War II fighter flew from Texas to be at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 where it was the toast of a Warbirds in Review session ... Read more
Seven years ago, Ben “Omni” Ayivorh, EAA 1146709, first attended EAA AirVenture Oshkosh as a crew chief with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration squadron.
As you make your way around the grounds, you can find many unusual or even unique airplanes. However, you won’t see many paint jobs as eye-catching as Lonnie Autry’s RV-8, ... Read more
It’s a pugnacious little biplane, resplendent in World War II German colors. It’s a 1954 Spanish-built clone of the 1930s German Bücker Jungmann trainer.
Volunteers are what make everything EAA does possible. With more than 5,000 volunteers helping out at AirVenture this year, it would be impossible not to run into one of them. ... Read more
Rose London, her husband Phil Weber and Rose’s dog Issie came to the Lost and Found building on Monday to reclaim the dog’s bag, filled with her service dog harness, ... Read more
When 34 Kittyhawk biplanes rolled out of the shop, the Depression put a padlock on the door in 1934. And that might have been the end of the line, if ... Read more
Jack Klein, EAA 518733, and Debbie Klein, EAA 1058911, celebrated their wedding by coming to AirVenture for their honeymoon, 40 years ago on this very day. “We were here for ... Read more
Seventeen-year-old Brady Sherrow, EAA 1062054, flew into Oshkosh on his longest cross-country trip yet, just two weeks after earning his private pilot certificate!
Having nearly 900 EAA chapters in the network, the wide range of diversity found in EAA chapters is about as broad as the number of chapters themselves, but when it ... Read more
This time on EAA’s The Green Dot, our hosts — Hal, Chris, and Tom — sat down to give listeners a virtual tour of the AirVenture grounds with just 11 ... Read more
This time on EAA’s The Green Dot, our hosts — Hal, Chris, and Tom — sat down to give listeners a virtual tour of the AirVenture grounds with just 11 ... Read more
This time on EAA’s The Green Dot, we welcomed Orbis International Director of Aircraft Operations and Maintenance Bruce Johnson to the show to talk about the Flying Eye Hospital that ... Read more
The Vintage Aircraft Association portion of the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh grounds takes up a pretty sizable chunk. Maintaining that chunk requires a lot of volunteer effort, and it begins with ... Read more
This time on EAA’s The Green Dot, we welcomed EAA’s Vice President of Publications, Marketing and Membership, Jim Busha, and EAA’s Chairman and CEO, Jack Pelton, to the show to ... Read more
My wife and I recently had the thrill of seeing our son solo both a helicopter and a Cessna — as well as pass his glider private pilot checkride — ... Read more
The Fun Fly Zone at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is home to ultralights and light-sport aircraft, not to mention rotorcraft, RC aircraft, and exciting demos of short takeoff and landing (STOL) ... Read more
After 40-year careers in the air show business, Julie Clark and Matt Chapman are hanging up their air show uniforms at the conclusion of their 2019 seasons.
By Frederick A. Johnsen Theresa Eaman has been a regular at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh for seven years. She brings professional song stylings of vintage tunes to the Warbirds in Review ... Read more
In recognition of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Dakota Territory Air Museum of Minot, North Dakota, participated with its fleet of aircraft in the air show yesterday. In addition ... Read more
The warbirds around the grounds aren’t alone in having served their country. While airplanes usually take center stage at AirVenture, EAA makes it a priority to take a moment to ... Read more
By Barbara A. Schmitz Flying Musicians is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019, all while singing the praises of pilots who perform. John Zapp, president and CEO, said the idea ... Read more
“It’s painted by John Stahr. I provided the canvas, the bodywork, and my life with my wife, Nan Wu, provided the inspiration,” Douglas Taylor said. “It’s based on our past ... Read more
19-year-old Alex Vanover got his start in RC here at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and is now winning world championships racing drones. “It’s a dream come true . ... Read more
By Kayla Floyd Nancy Walters holds many memories, as well as many patches. Nancy has been coming to the EAA fly-in convention since 1980 when she flew to Oshkosh in ... Read more
Patriotic pride from around the world was on display on the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 grounds on Friday afternoon, as AirVenture attendees gathered at the International Visitors Tent to parade ... Read more
By Barbara A. Schmitz Robin Dolp, of Frankfurt, Germany, always wanted to fly into EAA AirVenture Oshkosh via the Fisk route, but he didn’t have enough vacation time to do ... Read more
By John A. Conrad AirVenture is at once an air show, a fly-in, a camporee, a reunion, and a county fair, all centered on the gift of flight. The county ... Read more
Juxtaposed with the stream of big iron arriving and departing Boeing Plaza throughout the week is the Fun Fly Zone, a special runway dedicated to light-sport and ultralight aircraft that ... Read more
By Barbara A. Schmitz Austin Bowman, then 14, recalled being upset, even mad, when his parents sold the family’s Glasair in 2000 that his dad, Skip, had built soon after ... Read more
By Barbara A. Schmitz Bob Herman has been attending the EAA fly-in convention for 51 years, and volunteering for 50 of those years. “But I didn’t realize I was volunteering ... Read more
By Kayla Floyd The PedalVenture parade took place down Celebration Way on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering ... Read more
Charlie and Steve Gay’s 1965 Bowers Fly Baby 608X has returned to Oshkosh for the first time since 1970. The Fly Baby is a single-seat, folding-wing monoplane, originally designed in ... Read more
In 2003, Norman Surplus, then 40, was diagnosed with bowel cancer. The prognosis wasn’t good. “They gave me a 40 percent chance to live 18 months,” he recalled. As he ... Read more
Plenty of impressive, huge, and potentially pricey aircraft flock to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture every year, but not every flyer on the field is unaffordable. Enjoyable and accessible vintage aircraft ... Read more
The thousands of homebuilders at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 know that building your own plane is achievable, but a significant percentage of attendees might not. To shine some light on ... Read more
The Monday afternoon air show opened with an unlikely formation, flown in honor of two members of EAA’s first family: Founder Paul Poberezny and his son Tom, former president of ... Read more
By Kayla Floyd Johan Guyt stood along the flightline on Sunday, July 21, when an airplane in the markings of his homeland, South Africa, touched down on the runway. As ... Read more
By Kayla Floyd Over in homebuilt camping, a grey RV-8 might have caught some attention. Whether it was the German registration, the German flag on the tail, or the combination ... Read more
By Kayla Floyd It’s a bird, it’s a plane, and well … it’s a glider. And the pilot? Well, that is 14-year-old Riley Speidel. This year at AirVenture we are ... Read more
By John W. Conrad If you are looking to discover how they bend those fancy curves for vintage aircraft, or if you are plagued with a problem reverse compound curve ... Read more
Capt. Eddie Kurdziel’s Fairey Firefly will be on display on Warbird Alley during AirVenture and was part of EAA’s highly anticipated Warbirds in Review program Monday afternoon. The Firefly’s first ... Read more
By John W. Conrad The skies had barely lifted and thunder still rumbled in the distance when the Cirrus SR22, piloted by 22-year-old Steven Noonan of Western Michigan University, entered ... Read more
By Fred Johnsen There’s a dazzlingly shiny aluminum aircraft in the Vintage area that carries Royal Air Force roundels on the fuselage, and has the pedigree to do so. It’s ... Read more
By Barbara A. Schmitz Fifty years ago, the world watched in wonder as Apollo 11 approached the moon’s surface. People waited in front of their television sets, some for hours, ... Read more
John Dyke, EAA Lifetime 3566, generously donated a one-of-a-kind Dyke Delta JD-2 N555A to EAA that will be on the convention grounds in front of the Brown Arch during AirVenture ... Read more
Every year, more than 10,000 aircraft fly to Wisconsin for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Of those, nearly 3,000 are showplanes — vintage aircraft, warbirds, homebuilts, aerobatic airplanes, etc. — that are ... Read more
Anyone attending AirVenture this year can look around the grounds and see we’re celebrating something special — EAA’s 50th convention in Oshkosh. Except we’re not. If you read the fine ... Read more
By Barbara A. Schmitz Dean Gilderoy, of Scottsdale, Arizona, thought he was prepared for Friday night’s storm in Oshkosh. “I had staked down as much as I could, and was ... Read more
Back in May of 1955, a Corben Baby Ace graced the cover of Mechanix Illustrated magazine with a simple headline: “Build this plane for under $800 including engine!” The magazine ... Read more
Joel Godston knew he wanted to be involved in aviation from the age of 9. More than 70 years later, he’s joined the family of annual AirVenture attendees who share ... Read more
The Fun Fly Zone at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is home to all kinds of flying machines, from autogyros and helicopters to powered parachutes, light homebuilts, EAA’s Twilight Flight Fest, and ... Read more
When you walk through the Vintage area of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, you’re surrounded by living, breathing pieces of history. Here’s a look back at some of the classics from the ... Read more
To Experience Oshkosh is to be immersed in a seven-day reunion of everything aviation, a gathering of people and airplanes seen no place else on the planet.
EAA is offering a limited number of Innovation Showcase exhibit locations for cutting-edge companies that seek to bring new products to AirVenture 2019.
On the newest episode of EAA’s The Green Dot podcast, the hosts were joined by Vice President of Communities and Member Programs Rick Larsen and Vice President of Advocacy and ... Read more
This time on EAA’s The Green Dot we meet Dennis Dunbar, director of AirVenture air show operations. Anyone who knows Dennis knows he is full of great stories, and he ... Read more
EAA members are justifiably proud of their attendance at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, celebrating anniversaries spanning decades of flying in — or driving to the event — years of camping in ... Read more
The Homebuilts area is the place to go for the makers and doers at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. With daily workshops and forums, it is also the perfect place for current ... Read more
December 29, 2016 – We wanted to know what interested you most in 2016 at EAA, so we ran some numbers that gave us the stories that were the most-read ... Read more
Our photographers captured the best moments of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2016. Relive some of it with us as we get dream about #OSH17. Share The Spirit of Aviation® this holiday ... Read more