July 20, 2025October 20, 2025

2025 Dorothy Hilbert Award Winner — Carol Corona

AirVenture, Volunteers

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, 2025October 20, 2025

Public Benefit Flying: PALS for Patriots

AirVenture, Why We Fly

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, 2025October 20, 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, 2025October 17, 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, 2025October 20, 2025

Fergus Chapel

AirVenture, EAA Museum

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, 2025October 20, 2025

Pilot With a Purpose

AirVenture, Why We Fly

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, 2025October 16, 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, 2025October 20, 2025

Slip-Sliding Away

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, 2025October 31, 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, 2025October 20, 2025

Chapter 485 Ray Scholar Continues to Excel

Learn to Fly, Youth Outreach

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, 2025October 20, 2025

A Ray Scholar and Her Father Begin Flight Training Together

Member Stories, Youth Outreach

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, 2025October 17, 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, 2025October 20, 2025

Purchasing Vintage

Tips, 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, 2025October 20, 2025

Ray Scholar Hat Trick

Milestones, Youth Outreach

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, 2025October 20, 2025

Why Risk It?

Tips

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, 2025October 17, 2025

Engine Failures During Cruise, Part 2

Tips, 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, 2025October 31, 2025

EAA’s The Green Dot — SimVenture

AirVenture, 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

July 3, 2025October 20, 2025

First and Last Flight in a T-34 Mentor

Member Stories, Why We Fly

On June 29, Gary Eichhorn, EAA 63653, departed from Tampa, Florida, for his last flight as a passenger in a Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, the very same aircraft type he learned ... Read more

July 3, 2025October 20, 2025

Times Flies and So Does Howie! Celebrating Howie Cammack’s 90th Birthday

Member Stories, Why We Fly

Howie Cammack, EAA 290592, celebrated his 90th birthday on June 29, surrounded by family and friends. The celebration took place at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum ... Read more

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025

Canadian Woman Awarded EAA Scholarship

EAA Canada

By Clark Morawetz, EAA Canadian Council, and Mackenzie Van Panhuis   This spring, Mackenzie Van Panhuis was awarded a $3,000 USD scholarship from EAA. Here is Mackenzie in her own ... Read more

June 30, 2025October 20, 2025

Mabel Lake

EAA Canada, Member Stories, Why We Fly

By Mike Davenport, Vancouver, BC Sometimes we have to make hard decisions. Admittedly, some are easier to make than others. Take a recent case in point. I was at the ... Read more

June 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Sullivan’s Lucky 13

Member Stories, Milestones

By Shane Vande Voort, EAA 549889   My son, Sullivan Vande Voort, EAA 1239194, celebrated his 16th birthday on May 26 by completing a solo flight in 13 different airplane ... Read more

June 26, 2025October 31, 2025

My Life in EAA

Chapters, Member Stories

By Jim Hoak, EAA Lifetime 29646 At age 87, I am entering the sunset of my life, so I decided to tell my fellow EAA members what this fine organization ... Read more

June 26, 2025October 20, 2025

Girls Can Fly Day

Member Stories, Why We Fly

By Steve Krog, EAA 173799 This piece originally ran in Steve’s Classic Instructor column in the May 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. It is early March as I ... Read more

June 26, 2025October 29, 2025

EAA’s Attic — Charles Lindbergh Sheet Music

Attic, EAA Museum

This piece originally ran in the May 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine.   When Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, Americans ... Read more