November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Colorado Sling TSi

Homebuilding, Member Stories

By Brian Garrett, EAA Lifetime 871500 This piece originally ran in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, building an airplane ... Read more

November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

1925 National Air Reliability Tour: 100th Anniversary Commemorative Mooney Edition

Honoring The Past, Why We Fly

By Marc Breen, EAA 1468014 By 1925, Americans could travel long distances by train or automobile; but the idea of commercial aviation only existed in dreams and imagination. Air travel ... Read more

November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

Solo Milestone: EAA Chapter 5 Scholars Take Flight

Chapters, Milestones

By Patty Fulop, EAA 1049894, Geauga County Airport Community Outreach Coordinator Two local youths fly their first solo flights! The Geauga County Airport in Middlefield, Ohio, has remarkable groups that ... Read more

November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

Volunteer Spotlight — Gary Baker

Volunteers

This piece originally ran in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. For 32 years Gary Baker, EAA Lifetime 251742, has given his time and expertise to EAA ... Read more

November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

Your Homebuilt and Condition Inspections

Tips

By Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911/Vintage 724296 This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the October 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. You know by now that ... Read more

November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

Inspiring the Next Generation: Warbirds fill the ramp at Osceola’s Wheels & Wings

Honoring The Past, Warbirds

By Christina Davies Photography by Ainslee Campbell On September 6, warbirds filled the sky over Osceola, Wisconsin, as they flew in for the annual Wheels & Wings Show. Their arrival ... Read more

November 6, 2025November 7, 2025

Where Are All the Ultralights?

Ultralights, Why We Fly

By Bill Darnell, EAA 576650 This piece originally ran in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I am told by some of the more senior members of ... Read more

November 6, 2025November 7, 2025

Why Is It Doing That?

Tips

By Vic Syracuse, EAA Lifetime 180848 This piece originally ran in Vic’s Checkpoints column in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The title of this month’s column ... Read more

November 6, 2025November 12, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — Capital Flight Founders Matt and Jade Hofeldt

Learn to Fly, Podcast

This time on The Green Dot, host Chris is joined by Matt and Jade Hofeldt, founders of Capital Flight — an FBO located at Morey Field in Middleton, Wisconsin, that ... Read more

November 6, 2025November 6, 2025

Sport Pilot Milestone: Soloing With MOSAIC

Member Stories, Milestones

By Emme Hornung MOSAIC/Sport Pilot 2.0 went into effect just two weeks ago, and we’re already seeing sport pilots coming out of the woodwork because of it. Lorn M. Dennis, ... Read more

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

Michal Mastej, EAA Chapter 115’s First Ray Scholar

Chapters, EAA Canada

By Kathy Lubitz, President, UPAC Michal first started coming to EAA Chapter 115 meetings with his dad, Piotr, while he was in high school. At the time, the chapter was ... Read more

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

Our Ice Cream Feast at AirVenture

AirVenture, EAA Canada

By Ian Brown, EAA 657159, Editor, Bits and Pieces As usual, at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 this past July, the Canadians had our afternoon Thursday Ice Cream Social. We received ... Read more

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

What We Should Be Asking Ray Scholarship Applicants

Chapters, Youth Outreach

By Clark Morawetz, EAA Canadian Council, Captain Porter Airlines   (I thought you might find these questions revealing since we have an article about one of Chapter 115’s first Ray ... Read more

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

Vintage Homebuilts — Part 2 of 3: Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman

EAA Canada, Vintage

By Mike Davenport, Langley, British Columbia This Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman is registered as CF-EBY, a nice touch considering the builder’s last name is Eby. This wooden amphibian was designed by ... Read more

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025

EAA’s Attic — Captain EAAgle Mascot

Attic, EAA Museum

This piece originally ran in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. This mascot costume is that of Captain EAAgle, the EAA Aviation Foundation’s mascot during the 1980s. ... Read more

October 30, 2025November 7, 2025

Transferring Knowledge

Learn to Fly, Tips

By Steve Krog, EAA 173799 This piece originally ran in Steve’s Classic Instructor column in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. I wrote an article several months ... Read more

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025

The Connections We Make

Member Stories, Vintage

By Kristi Dunks, EAA Lifetime 689578, Vintage 732804 I probably come by it naturally given that my dad was a truckdriver for most of his life, but I must admit ... Read more

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025

Matthew Wolf: Young Eagle to Ray Scholar to Commercial Pilot

Member Stories, Milestones

By Sharon Puschmann   “Every time I see a plane flying overhead, I tell myself, ‘I will be up there one day. I will be able to do that.’” Once ... Read more

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025

What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Minnesota Cessna 180

Member Stories

By Kent Carder, EAA 676328 This piece originally ran in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. My Cessna 180 has been in my family since the early ... Read more

October 22, 2025November 7, 2025

All Amped Up

Tips

By Robert N. Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Electrical system issues might ... Read more

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025

The “Egg Boy” Saga Continues!

Member Stories, Milestones

On Friday, October 3, 2025, the famous Seth “Egg Boy” Holloway, EAA Lifetime 1058791,  received his coveted Naval aviator wings of gold! He has certainly come a long way from ... Read more

October 20, 2025October 31, 2025

Minnesota EAA Chapters 25, 54, and 1229 in Action

Chapters, Why We Fly

By Mark Kolesar, EAA Lifetime 294238 The Flying Cloud Airport located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, was the site of the 2025 Girls in Aviation Day on September 20, 2025. Three ... Read more

October 16, 2025November 7, 2025

Volunteer Spotlight — Tom Ewing

Volunteers

This piece originally ran in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   Tom Ewing, EAA 446994, was surrounded by aviation history since birth, coming from a family ... Read more

October 16, 2025November 7, 2025

The Five Keys to Airworthiness

Tips

By Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911/Vintage 724296 This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the September 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. We talk about airworthiness, but ... Read more

October 16, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — T-38 Instructor Pilot Olga Custodio

Podcast

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Margaret are joined by Lt. Col. Olga Custodio, a retired T-38 instructor pilot and the first Latina U.S. Air Force pilot, ... Read more