July 25, 2025October 20, 2025

How Volunteer Pilots Help Survivors of Human Trafficking Take Their Next Step

AirVenture, Why We Fly

By Jared Miller, CEO and Co-Founder Across the country, volunteer pilots are quietly stepping up to make a life-changing difference in the fight against human trafficking. Freedom Aviation Network (FAN) ... Read more

July 25, 2025October 20, 2025

Leveling Up at Oshkosh

AirVenture, Member Stories

Despite the geographical distance coming from Canada, Jordan Farrar, EAA 1645318, met his friends Wyatt Drum, from North Carolina, and Cody Ferguson EAA 1647229, Spencer Phillips, and Nolan Elliott EAA ... Read more

July 25, 2025October 20, 2025

Volunteer Family Spotlight

AirVenture, Volunteers

By Angela Satterlee The Deckers come from a long line of pilots and aviation enthusiasts as they now have five generations who have attended AirVenture. Ken Decker’s grandfather and father ... Read more

July 24, 2025October 20, 2025

Yellow Ribbon Honor Flight With Vietnam Vets to Washington, D.C.

AirVenture

Story and Photography By Jim Koepnick While you’re reading this over your morning coffee or waiting for the air show to start, there are 100 Vietnam War veterans from Northeast ... Read more

July 24, 2025October 20, 2025

Remembering Gene McNeely

AirVenture

Remembering Gene McNeely Longtime AeroShell Aerobatic Team pilot goes west By Barbara A. Schmitz Gene McNeely, part of the AeroShell Aerobatic Team from 1994 to 2017, died July 5 in ... Read more

July 24, 2025October 20, 2025

AirVenture Cup Results

AirVenture

By Robbie Culver The 2025 EAA AirVenture Cup Cross-Country Air Race was held July 20, 2025, starting at Wausau Downtown Airport (KAUW) and finishing at Merrill Municipal (KRRL). This year’s ... Read more

July 24, 2025October 20, 2025

Volunteers Deliver Smoke Oil to Air Show Performers Daily

AirVenture, Volunteers

By Catherine Warmkessel An air show wouldn’t be the same without the smoke that billows out behind each airplane. I had the opportunity to go behind the scenes of an ... Read more

July 24, 2025October 20, 2025

The Maestro

AirVenture

By Jim Roberts While enjoying the aerial ballet and symphony of sound during the daily air show, have you ever wondered who the conductor is? That would be the air ... Read more

July 24, 2025October 20, 2025

From Twelve to Tradition

AirVenture, Member Stories

Tom Ewing, EAA 446994, was one of the original group of 12 people who first met in 1981 to start what would become UPS Airlines, now one of the largest ... Read more

July 24, 2025October 20, 2025

Reuniting with Family Aeronca

AirVenture, Member Stories

By Barbara A. Schmitz Ellen Northam, of Tipp City, Ohio, grew up hearing about a 1946 Aeronca 11 Chief her mother purchased before she and her husband were married. She ... Read more

July 24, 2025October 20, 2025

EAA’s Type Club Coalition Annual Meeting

AirVenture

By Robbie Culver, Type Club Coalition Chair On Tuesday, July 22, EAA’s Type Club Coalition held its annual meeting during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in the PHP Conference Center Heritage Gallery ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

From Patient to Pilot

Why We Fly, Youth Outreach

Byron Waller, a 15-year-old from Brisbane, Australia, is using aviation to raise awareness about Crohn’s disease and show people they can overcome their limitations. Byron had been in and out ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

Flying Through Generations

AirVenture, Member Stories

The first-generation flyer who started it all for the Reigles was the late Charles Reigle. Flying became a generational habit that trickled down to the family’s newest pilot, Carl Reigle. ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

Wittman Buster Replica Built With Original Wings on Display in Homebuilders

AirVenture

By Robbie Culver In the Homebuilders Hangar, a replica of C.J. “Steve” Wittman’s Buster is on display. This is no ordinary replica — it includes original parts and was meticulously ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

Every Flight Is a Challenge!

Aerobatics, AirVenture

By Robbie Culver Britt Lincoln flew in the IAC demo Tuesday and Wednesday. While she has attended EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in the past, this was her first time flying in ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

Happy Birthday, Dragon Lady!

AirVenture, Warbirds

Story and Photography By Jim Roberts Conceived by Lockheed’s C. L. “Kelly” Johnson and built at his Skunk Works, the U-2 first flew in July 1955 and has served faithfully ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

First Aid Care Available to Attendees

AirVenture, Volunteers

By Abigail Oleniczak EAA AirVenture’s First Aid building offers many different services. The staff are a happy group of volunteers who share one common goal: to help and care for ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

Family Volunteer Spotlight: The Martins

AirVenture, Volunteers

The Martins’ journey with EAA began in the late 1980s when Cindy Martin, EAA 288433, and her husband, Robert, EAA 1034583, first attended AirVenture. A few years later, they began ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

Conservation: SouthWings Okefenokee

AirVenture, Why We Fly

By Laura Early, SouthWings Eastern Program Director North America’s largest blackwater wetland, the Okefenokee Swamp, covers more than 400,000 acres in Southeast Georgia. It is truly a unique freshwater ecosystem ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 31, 2025

Campfire Stories at Camp Scholler

AirVenture, Member Stories

Story and Photography By Jessica Schaefer, EAA 1284501 Back on Cottonwood Avenue in Camp Scholler, the sounds of Top Gun echo across the tents, interrupting the rhythm of the campfire ... Read more

July 23, 2025October 20, 2025

Passing the Torch

AirVenture, Member Stories

Story and Photography By Jim Roberts When you spot a sparkling Spartan Executive parked south of the Theater in the Woods, be sure to visit with the young pilots who ... Read more

July 22, 2025October 20, 2025

Bringing Hope From the Sky

AirVenture, Why We Fly

By Operation Helo When disaster strikes, most people wait for help to arrive. Operation Helo doesn’t keep them waiting long — it flies straight into the heart of devastation. With ... Read more

July 22, 2025October 20, 2025

A Busload of Fun

AirVenture, Member Stories

Since 1988, Kent Shoemaker, EAA 419538, has been bringing a busload of aviation enthusiasts from Western Pennsylvania to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. With the exclusion of 2020 and 2021, he has ... Read more

July 22, 2025October 20, 2025

A Tribute to Tracy Forrest

AirVenture, Member Stories

By Paul T. Glessner, EAA 1270226 I have been interested in aircraft ever since I was a youngster. My father took the family to Philadelphia International Airport (KPHL) after some ... Read more

July 22, 2025October 20, 2025

Family Volunteer Spotlight: The Duck Family

AirVenture, Volunteers

For many, AirVenture is a weeklong celebration of aviation, but for Don, EAA 43797, and Karen Duck, EAA 617522, it’s a family tradition that spans generations and entails nearly a ... Read more