by EAA | Feb 11, 2022 | Podcast, restoration, The Green Dot
This time on The Green Dot, the crew sat down with Lisa Turner to discuss the many factors to consider when it comes to restoring an aircraft. Tune in to hear some great advice from Lisa! Read...
by EAA | Oct 27, 2021 | EAA Sport Aviation, From The Hangar Floor, Homebuilding, restoration
EAA Sport Aviation contributor Lisa Turner discusses the dangers of hidden aircraft damage in her latest column. Read More
by EAA | Jul 27, 2021 | AirVenture, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, restoration, Vintage, vintage airplane
When 34 Kittyhawk biplanes rolled out of the shop, the Depression put a padlock on the door in 1934. And that might have been the end of the line, if Bob Coolbaugh of Newmarket, Virginia, hadn’t swung into action in 2012. Read...
by Chris Henry | Mar 20, 2021 | History, Honoring The Past, Member Stories, restoration, tiger moth, warbird, Warbirds
December 1, 2016 – For years Liz Matzelle, EAA 576594, dreamed of owning an airplane. Little did she know that the adventure she would go on would result in her saving a time-capsule warbird. “I knew I wanted to get an airplane that I could restore and fly and was...
by Jim Busha | Mar 20, 2021 | Doc, History, Honoring The Past, restoration, warbird, Warbirds
More photos below December 15, 2016 – My last Doc checkup was more than two and a half years ago. Not a very smart or health-conscious way to go through life if you want to maintain a fit lifestyle. But this checkup had nothing to do with my blood pressure, pulse, or...
by Megan Esau | Mar 20, 2021 | From The Hangar Floor, History, Member Stories, restoration, Warbirds, wwi
In the early 2000s, when Don Funke, EAA 652318, and a group of friends were discussing the history of aviation in their hometown of Ithaca, New York, they could only have dreamed that 15 years later they would be close to completing the restoration of a World War I...
