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AirVenture 2024: EAA AirVenture starts next week in Oshkosh. Here’s a look at what’s in store for the 71st edition. Here’s a look at what’s in store for the 71st edition. Local events
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]
Up to 500 state-of-the-art drones are set to take to the air as Starlight Aerial Productions will be bringing its popular night air shows to this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh convention.
National Blue Beret (NBB) is a National Cadet Special Activity in the Civil Air Patrol.The event is two weeks long and is set up so that the second week will overlap with the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh event.
The 71st EAA AirVenture Oshkosh runs daily through July 28 at Wittman Regional Airport, 525 W. 20th Ave., Oshkosh. Daily tickets are $45 for adult members and $63 for adult non-members.
EAA founder Paul Poberezny proposed the idea of the EAA Air Museum-Air Education center in August 1958. [2] In the late 1970s, his son, EAA president Tom Poberezny, led the campaign to build the current updated EAA museum and headquarters, which was officially opened in 1983. The EAA library has been open to EAA members since 1985.
The 71st EAA AirVenture Oshkosh runs daily through July 28 at Wittman Regional Airport, 525 W. 20th Ave., Oshkosh. Daily tickets are $45 for adult members and $63 for adult non-members.
[3] [4] Runways 5/23 and 13/31 are closed during AirVenture. [4] For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 80,102 aircraft operations, an average of 219 per day: 97% general aviation, 3% air taxi and less than 1% military, though the EAA AirVenture airshow accounts for a large number of the annual operations. [15]