by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #OSH19, AirVenture, History, Vintage
By Fred Johnsen There’s a dazzlingly shiny aluminum aircraft in the Vintage area that carries Royal Air Force roundels on the fuselage, and has the pedigree to do so. It’s a Spartan Executive. If any Spartan Executive shows up at AirVenture, it’s cause for interest....
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #Aircraft, #OSH19, AirVenture
Plenty of impressive, huge, and potentially pricey aircraft flock to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture every year, but not every flyer on the field is unaffordable. Enjoyable and accessible vintage aircraft can be found both in a special section just south of the DC-3s, as...
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #OSH19, AirVenture, Ultralight, Ultralights
The thousands of homebuilders at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 know that building your own plane is achievable, but a significant percentage of attendees might not. To shine some light on the process — and show that you, too, can build an airplane (or, in this case, a...
by Hal Bryan | Mar 20, 2021 | #AirShow, #OSH19, Air Show, AirVenture, warbird, Warbirds
The Monday afternoon air show opened with an unlikely formation, flown in honor of two members of EAA’s first family: Founder Paul Poberezny and his son Tom, former president of the organization. In the lead was EAA’s North American P-64, the only surviving example of...
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #Aircraft, #OSH19, AirVenture, Member Stories, warbird, Warbirds
By Kayla Floyd Johan Guyt stood along the flightline on Sunday, July 21, when an airplane in the markings of his homeland, South Africa, touched down on the runway. As the airplane drew closer, other similarities caused him to pause — the airplane, a North American...
by EAA | Mar 20, 2021 | #OSH19, Homebuilding, Member Stories, Youth & Young Eagles
By John W. Conrad When Bob and Jean Porter of Batavia, Illinois, attended their first EAA air show at Oshkosh, they didn’t have an airplane, but they had a dream. Bob learned to fly in a Cessna 152 and then a 172, and he dreamed of owning his own airplane. Jean...
