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

July 22, 2025October 20, 2025

50 Years at Oshkosh

AirVenture, Why We Fly

By Robbie Culver Attending EAA AirVenture Oshkosh can be a life-changing event. Glen Matejcek (rhymes with “paycheck”), EAA 151163, who is attending his 50th AirVenture in 2025, said his early ... Read more

July 22, 2025October 20, 2025

New EAA Campground a Hit

AirVenture

By Barbara A. Schmitz A new campground area in EAA’s Camp Scholler is getting good reviews, especially from those arriving in large, heavy motorhomes. Camp Scholler Southeast, located south of ... Read more

July 22, 2025October 20, 2025

Fairchild Aviation’s 100th Anniversary Celebrated at AirVenture Oshkosh

AirVenture, Honoring The Past, Vintage

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

Angel Flight West Command Pilot Kosta Constantine

AirVenture, Why We Fly

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, 2025October 20, 2025

BETA Technologies Electrifies Afternoon Air Show

AirVenture, Member Stories

“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, 2025October 20, 2025

Goodyear Blimp 100th Anniversary Brings Two Airships to Oshkosh!

AirVenture, Honoring The Past

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, 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