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December 14, 2023October 29, 2025

Volunteer Spotlight — Jonathon McKenzie

Volunteers
Jonathon McKenzie, EAA Lifetime 1110671, became EAA’s Print Mail Center volunteer chairman in 2022, but he joined EAA and started volunteering more than 10 years ago after he caught a ... Read more
December 14, 2023October 17, 2025

Got Logbooks?

Tips
In a recent column for EAA Sport Aviation, contributor Lisa Turner discusses some of the top problems found with logbooks during annuals and audits. ... Read more
December 14, 2023

Excellence From Start to Finish

Youth Outreach
Thanks to a gift from the Michigan Business Aviation Foundation and a matching gift from the Dick & Betsy DeVos Foundation, West Michigan Aviation Academy students began building a Carbon ... Read more
December 14, 2023December 18, 2023

No Need for Speed: The Gordon Bennett Cup

Member Stories
Noah Forden, EAA 539700, and Brenda Cowlishaw spent almost three days in the gas balloon Intrepid, traveling 1,382 miles over the southern United States as part of the world’s oldest ... Read more
December 7, 2023

Airplanes Have Two P-Factors

Member Stories
In this excerpt from his popular blog, Thinking Out Loud, EAA columnist and contributor Budd Davisson candidly reflects on a rare flight where he almost couldn’t wait to get back ... Read more
December 6, 2023October 29, 2025

Phantom Thing

Ultralights
In a recent piece for EAA Sport Aviation, contributor William Berson discusses the restoration and flight testing of his Phantom LSA. ... Read more
December 6, 2023November 4, 2025

Kaboom!

From The Hangar Floor, Homebuilding, Tips
In a recent column for EAA Sport Aviation, contributor Vic Syracuse discusses a recent incident he had with his newly built Hummingbird helicopter. ... Read more
December 5, 2023December 6, 2023

Buttonville Airport Closing

EAA Canada
An airport closure rarely happens in Canada. In 2009, the Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport (CYKZ) announced their plans to sell the airport to property developers. On May 31, 2023, the ... Read more
December 5, 2023November 4, 2025

Carbon Neutral Hangar?

EAA Canada, Tips
EAA member Scott McFadden takes us through the installation of the solar system in his hangar. ... Read more
December 5, 2023November 4, 2025

Carbon Monoxide

EAA Canada, Tips
The dangers of carbon monoxide leaks and the importance of CO monitors. ... Read more
December 5, 2023November 4, 2025

Werner Griesbeck — Eulogy

EAA Canada, Member Stories
Remembering a well-respected British Columbia pilot and restorer. ... Read more
December 5, 2023November 4, 2025

Ruffled Feathers: Where Are the Mentors in Today’s Flight Training?

EAA Canada, Learn to Fly
In his latest piece, Bits and Pieces contributor John Wyman discusses the importance of mentors to new student pilots. ... Read more
December 5, 2023November 4, 2025

Love Is in the Air

AirVenture, EAA Canada
As AirVenture 2023 ended, something different and special was noticed. Love was everywhere! Not such a big surprise as the more than 677,000 visitors who came through the gates had ... Read more
November 30, 2023October 31, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — Naval Flight Officer Maggie Kohl

Podcast
This time on The Green Dot, hosts Tom and Chris are joined by Maggie Kohl, a Grumman E-2 Hawkeye naval flight officer who made a brief appearance in Top Gun: ... Read more
November 30, 2023October 28, 2025

Reflections of a Tri-Motor Stewardess (Or Should I Say, Hostess)

Honoring The Past, Why We Fly
100-year-old Ruth Hunter considered the Tri-Motor her home at one point, having been a stewardess on the Tri-Motor in the early ‘50s, and getting to fly in EAA’s Ford Tri-Motor ... Read more
November 30, 2023October 29, 2025

EAA’s Attic — Data Tape Reel, Enterprise OV-101

Attic, EAA Museum
Before the miniaturization and adoption of hard disk drives, magnetic tape reels like this were a primary data storage medium in early computers. This reel contained part of the flight ... Read more
November 30, 2023October 17, 2025

Be a Part of the Solution

Tips
In a recent column for EAA Sport Aviation, contributor Steve Krog discusses the concept of bringing experienced commercial pilots back into the general aviation flight training world. ... Read more
November 22, 2023October 29, 2025

Thank You for the Chapter Leadership Academy

Chapters
EAA Chapter 1098 of Shawnee, Oklahoma, would like to thank the EAA staff for their hospitality at the leadership symposium in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on October 18-20, 2023. ... Read more
November 22, 2023November 22, 2023

My Young Eagles Flight

Youth Outreach
We write and share a lot of stories about our Young Eagles program and how much those first flights mean to kids, but it’s not often that we get a ... Read more
November 22, 2023October 22, 2025

EAA Chapter 972 Young Eagles Workshop

Chapters, Youth Outreach
EAA Chapter 972 held a Young Eagles Workshop on Saturday, October 7, 2023, at the Rusk County Airport (KRFI) in Rusk County, Texas. Thirteen youths attended and learned about aircraft ... Read more
November 21, 2023

Flight Sim to Flight School

Youth Outreach
How I used a flight simulator to not only practice comms and maneuvers but also pass my private pilot exam. ... Read more
November 21, 2023November 22, 2023

What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Washington Just Aircraft Highlander

Homebuilding, Member Stories
In a recent piece for EAA Sport Aviation, EAA member Steve Cameron takes us through the build of his Just Aircraft Highlander. ... Read more
November 21, 2023October 17, 2025

A ‘Fowl’ Weather Day

Tips
In a recent column for EAA Sport Aviation, contributor Robert N. Rossier discusses the dangers of bird strikes and how to avoid them. ... Read more
November 16, 2023November 16, 2023

One Last Ride…

Member Stories
So, with many hands, Dad was in the cockpit again, for one last ride. I sat in the back seat, Dad in the front right, with Greg as PIC. We ... Read more
November 16, 2023October 29, 2025

Volunteer Spotlight — Gustavo Arosemena

Volunteers
Gustavo Arosemena, EAA 1172064, of Panama is highly involved with EAA, starting his chapter in Panama and volunteering year after year at the International Visitors Tent during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. ... Read more

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