July 22, 2025July 22, 2025

Fairchild Aviation’s 100th Anniversary Celebrated at AirVenture Oshkosh

AirVenture

By Robbie Culver The venerable Fairchild Aviation Corp. is being celebrated at EAA AirVenture 2025 on its 100th anniversary. The company began in Farmingdale, New York, as a manufacturer of ... Read more

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025

Pratt & Whitney’s Rare Junior Jumbo

AirVenture

RTX subsidiary Pratt & Whitney brought its Boeing 747SP test bed to Oshkosh as part of the company’s global centennial celebration, commemorating 100 years since its founding in 1925. The ... Read more

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025

Getting the Band Back Together

AirVenture

Back for the first time since 2019, the AirVenture Concert Band is here for another rocking performance. It all started in 2007 when a group of musical aviators, under the ... Read more

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025

AirVenture 2025 Volunteers of the Year

AirVenture, Volunteers

Gary Baker, EAA Lifetime 251742, a retired airline pilot from Medina, Ohio, has selflessly given his time and expertise to EAA and Chapter 846 for the past 32 years. Just ... Read more

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025

The Krapfl Family — Main Gate North Mainstays

AirVenture, Volunteers

The Krapfl family is the powerhouse of the Main Gate North Admissions (MGN), with nearly 20 volunteers of siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and in-laws who pitch in ... Read more

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025

Angel Flight West Command Pilot Kosta Constantine

AirVenture

By Corbett Stevenson Itzy’s mother, Mirna, remembers Itzy having a persistent fever, and Mirna had a nagging feeling that something was wrong. After a multitude of tests at their small ... Read more

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025

BETA Technologies Electrifies Afternoon Air Show

AirVenture

“This business would not exist if it weren’t for EAA,” said Kyle Clark, BETA Technologies founder and CEO. As one of the participants in today’s Innovations Day activities, BETA’s all-electric ... Read more

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025

Goodyear Blimp 100th Anniversary Brings Two Airships to Oshkosh!

AirVenture

By Robbie Culver There may be no more iconic aircraft in America than a Goodyear blimp. A blimp is a unique advertising extravaganza and a mainstay of live aerial television ... Read more

July 20, 2025

2025 Dorothy Hilbert Award Winner — Carol Corona

AirVenture

By Angela Satterlee This year’s Dorothy Hilbert Award goes to Carol Corona, EAA Lifetime 545619, who has been volunteering for more than 40 years. This award recognizes a female volunteer ... Read more

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025

Public Benefit Flying: PALS for Patriots

AirVenture

By Stephanie Jendrzejewski, Development Manager, PALS SkyHope This year marks 15 years of PALS SkyHope — and one of the most meaningful initiatives to take flight in that time is ... Read more

July 20, 2025July 21, 2025

Airplanes and Articles

AirVenture

Barb Schmitz began covering AirVenture as an intern for the Fond du Lac Reporter while attending UW Oshkosh and later continued in her roles as a reporter and city editor for ... Read more

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025

The Burns Family

AirVenture, Volunteers

Tami Burns, EAA 799426, from Almond, Wisconsin, started volunteering at the North 40 camping registration station in 2009. She soon decided that it really wasn’t what she wanted to do, ... Read more

July 19, 2025July 19, 2025

Fergus Chapel

AirVenture

By Cam Martin, EAA Chaplain & Fergus Chapel Chairman, EAA 536955   Each day of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, volunteer chaplains from around the country gather at the Fergus Chapel to ... Read more

July 19, 2025July 19, 2025

Pilot With a Purpose

AirVenture

By Kristinia Luke, Executive Director, Air Care Alliance Every pilot remembers the first time they took the controls — the thrill, the freedom, the pure joy of flight. Over time, ... Read more

July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

What Our Members Are Building/Restoring — Ohio Velocity Aircraft Velocity SE

Member Stories

By Steve Campbell, EAA 289109 This piece originally ran in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   When I started my Velocity SE project in 2016, I ... Read more

July 17, 2025August 6, 2025

Slip-Sliding Away

Member Stories, Tips

By Robert N. Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Robert’s Stick and Rudder column in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The pilot of a ... Read more

July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — A-6 Pilot Dick Koehler

Podcast

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Tom and Chris are joined by Dick Koehler, EAA 161427, who flew the A-6 Intruder during the Vietnam War, to speak about his ... Read more

July 11, 2025July 11, 2025

Chapter 485 Ray Scholar Continues to Excel

Member Stories

By Ralph Moser, EAA 702188, EAA Chapter 485 President EAA Chapter 485, the “Panhandle Pelicans” of Pensacola, Florida, would like to highlight the progress of Brian Harris, one of the ... Read more

July 11, 2025July 11, 2025

A Ray Scholar and Her Father Begin Flight Training Together

Member Stories

By Eric Wegner, EAA 329302, EAA Chapter 320 (Watertown, Wisconsin) President EAA Chapter 320’s 2025 Ray Aviation Scholarship recipient is Riley Runke, EAA 1655190. Receiving this scholarship is a big ... Read more

July 10, 2025July 10, 2025

Volunteer Spotlight — Rev. William Hower

Volunteers

This piece originally ran in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   Each summer, the EAA convention grounds turns into a pop-up city for AirVenture, making the ... Read more

July 10, 2025July 11, 2025

Purchasing Vintage

Member Stories, Vintage

By Lisa Turner, EAA Lifetime 509911/Vintage 724296  This piece originally ran in Lisa’s Airworthy column in the June 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Becky and Ron exited their ... Read more

July 10, 2025July 10, 2025

Ray Scholar Hat Trick

Member Stories

By Gary Brossett, EAA Lifetime 375866 What a month it has been! Lola Waldrep, EAA 1399617, earned her private pilot certificate on June 17, spent the next few days completing ... Read more

July 3, 2025July 3, 2025

Why Risk It?

Member Stories

By Vic Syracuse, EAA Lifetime 180848 This piece originally ran in Vic’s Checkpoints column in the May 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   A few months ago on a ... Read more

July 3, 2025July 3, 2025

Engine Failures During Cruise, Part 2

Member Stories, Ultralights

By Mark Murray, EAA 394554 This piece originally ran in the May 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   What you’ve dreaded so long, practiced for, and feared, just ... Read more

July 3, 2025July 3, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — SimVenture

Podcast

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Tom are joined by longtime air traffic controller David Kaupp and Kevin from PilotEdge to discuss SimVenture, the flight simulator-based event ... Read more