August 21, 2025October 31, 2025

Growing the EAA Chapter 1116 Scholarship Program

Chapters, Youth Outreach

By Angela Satterlee   EAA Chapter 1116 is honoring the legacy of longtime EAA member, Young Eagles volunteer pilot, and Chapter 1116 treasurer Martin (Marty) Davidow, EAA 665941, by giving ... Read more

August 14, 2025October 17, 2025

What Is an Ultralight?

Ultralights

By Paul Hamilton, EAA 694707 This piece originally ran in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. An ultralight is different things to different people. I will give ... Read more

August 14, 2025October 20, 2025

Too Much Dependency?

Tips

By Vic Syracuse, EAA Lifetime 180848 This piece originally ran in Vic’s Checkpoints column in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   From my last few columns, ... Read more

August 14, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — C-130 Navigator Anita Mack

Podcast

This time on The Green Dot, host Chris is joined by Anita Mack, a retired lieutenant colonel who served as a navigator on C-130s during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi ... Read more

August 14, 2025October 31, 2025

Old Ray Scholar Teaches New Ray Scholar

Chapters, Youth Outreach

By Scott Thompson, President, EAA Chapter 1541 Way back sometime in 2018, I had the pleasure of participating in a Young Eagles rally held by our chapter, EAA Chapter 1541, ... Read more

August 7, 2025October 29, 2025

EAA’s Attic — Seashells From Tinian Island

Attic, EAA Museum

This piece originally ran in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   These seashells were souvenirs collected by Paul C. Shafhauser to remember his time stationed at ... Read more

August 7, 2025October 20, 2025

An Instructor Wears Many Hats

Learn to Fly, Tips

By Steve Krog, EAA 173799 This piece originally ran in Steve’s Classic Instructor column in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   One evening after a day ... Read more

August 7, 2025October 29, 2025

2025 Pietenpol Reunion Photo Gallery

Vintage

By James Lipman, EAA 1235855 The 2025 Pietenpol Reunion at Brodhead Airport in Brodhead, Wisconsin, supported by EAA Chapter 431, took place July 17-20. These homebuilt aircraft and their pilots ... Read more

August 7, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA Chapter 5 Hosts Youth Summer Camp

Chapters, Youth Outreach

By Sherry Niederkorn, EAA Lifetime 1277308   The EAA Chapter 5 Summer Youth Aviation Camp 2025 is officially in the logbook and on record for “reaching the sky” with this ... Read more

August 7, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA Chapter 406 Rolls Out Solar-Powered Electric Xenos

Chapters, Homebuilding

By Bremerton Aviation Center for Education The Bremerton Aviation Center for Education (BACE), an independent project that works in partnership with local EAA Chapter 406, rolled out its electric-powered Xenos ... Read more

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

Barney Dunlevy Gone West

Member Stories

By Mike Davenport Barney Dunlevy passed away earlier this year after a long illness that had increasingly affected both his mobility and eyesight. However, this had no effect on either ... Read more

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

Heat Shrink Wire Clamps

Homebuilding

By Brad Lawrence In building experimental aircraft, there’s always one or two wires that have to depart from the harness and go across the panel or firewall by themselves. Plastic ... Read more

August 4, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA Chapter 115 Highlights

Chapters, EAA Canada

By Bill MacKay, EAA 1190268, Chapter 115 Treasurer, Plattsville, Ontario   EAA Chapter 115 meets at Edward’s Air Base (Plattsville Aerodome, CLB2) every Saturday for breakfast with a formal meeting ... Read more

August 4, 2025October 17, 2025

Bits and Pieces: First Look at the RV-15

AirVenture, EAA Canada

By Shiv Ram Krishna, EAA 1549613, EAA Canada Attendees at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 were treated to a much-anticipated reveal by Van’s Aircraft: the RV-15, a prototype high-wing design that ... Read more

August 4, 2025October 31, 2025

Canadian Welcome Barbeque at Oshkosh

AirVenture, EAA Canada

By Ian Brown, EAA 657159, Editor, Bits and Pieces Arriving at Oshkosh and camping ahead of opening day provides the opportunity to attend our “Welcome to Oshkosh” barbecue on Sunday ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 31, 2025

Have a Seat!

AirVenture, Chapters

By Barbara A. Schmitz It started in about 2018 with a simple concept: Have EAA Chapters build chairs for the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh that give chapter members and others a ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Parachutes and Power Moves

AirVenture

At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the Tuesday and Thursday air shows featured the Golden Knights, and the air shows on Monday and Wednesday featured the Misty Blues parachuting teams. But across ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

What AirVenture Oshkosh Means to Me

AirVenture, Why We Fly

By Robbie Culver Any one of you reading these words could have written them. I know I am just lucky enough to be the one doing so. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

50th Anniversary Celebrated at AirVenture

AirVenture, Member Stories

Fifty years ago, Jack, EAA Lifetime 69122, and Anne McCombs, EAA Lifetime 78375, honeymooned in the most fitting place imaginable for two aviation lovers: the EAA Oshkosh fly-in. In 1975 ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 17, 2025

Oshkosh!

AirVenture

Rocking your wings, and landing on the dot. Powered parachutes drifting gently overhead. The taut fabric of a biplane’s wings glistening with dew at dawn. The proud lines of an ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

The Dynamic Dyer

AirVenture, Volunteers

By Barbara A. Schmitz John Dyer said he is a protégé of the Civil Rights Movement. Born in Atlanta in 1949, he remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Santa Makes AirVenture ‘The Most Wonderful Time of the Year’

AirVenture, Volunteers

By Barbara A. Schmitz For Keith Miller, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. And the people who see him are likely thinking that, too. After all, what could be ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Four Women. Four Cubs. One Destination

AirVenture

Five years ago, Jackie Burch was terrified of flying. Now, she’s flown many different aircraft types, including a CubCrafters NXCub out of its base in Yakima, Washington, all the way ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

From Argentina to AirVenture and Back

AirVenture, Member Stories

By Barbara A. Schmitz As soon as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 was over, Daniel Giuliani and his son Valentino decided they would come back in 2025. But for the first ... Read more

July 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Here Since Day One

Honoring The Past, Member Stories

Before EAA became EAA in 1953, it was just founder Paul Poberezny and a small group of homebuilding enthusiasts that would informally get together, often at the local auto garage ... Read more