by Angela Satterlee | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today, volunteer, 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, saying it felt too much like what she did for her real job. But the next year, she...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today
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 the Oshkosh Northwestern after graduation. She has been reporting on the fly-in and...
by EAA | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today, public benefit flying
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 PALS for Patriots. This program provides free air transportation to veterans and active...
by Angela Satterlee | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today
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 who embodies the same enthusiasm and heartfelt dedication to volunteerism that...
by EAA | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today
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 coverage at every imaginable sporting event. The Goodyear blimp represents the brand, but also...
by Emme Hornung | Jul 25, 2025 | AirVenture, AirVenture Today
“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 conventional takeoff and landing aircraft, ALIA CX300, will be flown by...
