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The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is an international organization of aviation enthusiasts based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Since its inception, it has grown internationally with over 300,000 [3] members [4] and nearly 1,000 chapters worldwide. It hosts the largest aviation gathering of its kind in the world, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. [5]
OSHKOSH – 686,000 people. 861 exhibitors. 98 countries. One record-setting year for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.. The world’s biggest aviation show just continues to grow after last week’s fly-in ...
F-86 Sabre (top), A-10 Thunderbolt II (mid), and P-51D Mustang (bottom) performing at Oshkosh in 2009. EAA was founded in Hales Corners, Wisconsin in 1953 by aircraft designer and military aviator veteran Paul Poberezny, who originally started the organization in the basement of his home for builders and restorers of recreational aircraft. [7]
The museum is located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States, adjacent to Wittman Regional Airport, home of the museum's sponsoring organization, the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), and the organization's EAA AirVenture Oshkosh event (the world's biggest fly-in and airshow) that takes place in late July/early August.
One of Oshkosh’s biggest drawing cards seems to be a year-round attraction, as at least 60,000 people visited EAA’s aviation museum last year outside of the popular one-week AirVenture show in ...
Mark your calendar for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh will return to Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh July 22-28. It will be the 71st fly-in and convention.
Sent to the EAA's Kermit Weeks Flight Research Center in Florida in 1993, the aircraft was prepared for its first tour, which began in 1994. [13] At present, of the 48 surviving B-17s, there are only 9 such B-17s still airworthy, with Aluminum Overcast , the high-time leader, already logging 6,000 flight hours by 1969. [ 6 ]
May 28—Area young people ages 8-17 will have a chance to take to the skies on June 8, as the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter No. 386 hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally at Austin ...