by EAA | Dec 21, 2024 | Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Aviation Museum, EAA member, EAA Museum, EAA Sport Aviation, History, Member Stories
This piece originally ran in the November 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. These flight helmets were worn by Wesley Todd, who flew Corsairs as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was part of VMF-221 and was stationed...
by EAA | Nov 24, 2024 | AirVenture, Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Attic, EAA Museum
This piece originally ran in the October 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. “AirVenture” goes by many names: Some call it “the convention,” others simply “Oshkosh,” locals call it “EAA,” but in 1969 it was the “Sport Aviation Convention.” The event was held in...
by EAA | Nov 3, 2024 | Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Attic, EAA Museum, History
This piece originally ran in the September 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. Back when a commercial flight was still an event to dress to the nines for, Pan American World Airways commemorated a passenger’s crossing the equator with a little memento. On April...
by EAA | Sep 28, 2024 | Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Museum, History
This piece originally ran in the August 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. This uniform was worn by Tuskegee airman Leo Gray. Originally from Boston, Gray volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps and began his aviation training at the Tuskegee Army Airfield in...
by EAA | Aug 29, 2024 | Attic, aviation history, EAA Attic, EAA Museum
This piece originally ran in the July 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. In 1979, more than 40 years after she made her historic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, Hallmark released an Amelia Earhart doll as the first doll in its “Famous Americans” series....
by EAA | Aug 2, 2024 | Attic, aviation history, EAA, EAA Museum, History, museum
This piece originally ran in the June 2024 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. This XP-51 ammo can is an original component from the EAA Aviation Museum’s North American XP-51 Mustang. The museum’s Mustang is the oldest surviving Mustang in the world, as well as the...
