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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 EAA Aviation Museum soars into the early days of flight Visitors can take a deep dive into the history of flight at the EAA Aviation Museum, located at 3000 Poberezny Road, Oshkosh.
The airport is part of the EAA Aviation Museum.In the hangars are some of the oldest aircraft the museum has, including "Golden Age" (1920s/1930s) biplanes and vintage monoplanes such as Swallow and WACO biplanes, Travel Air, Curtiss Robin, Fairchild FC-2, Stinson Aircraft, Spartan C-3, Great Lakes 2T-1A acrobat, Aeronca K, Monocoupe, Howard DGA, Heath Parasol, Pietenpol Air Camper, and many ...
DeLand Naval Air Station Museum, Deland; EAA Chapter 1241 Air Museum, Marathon [46] Fantasy of Flight, Polk City; Florida Air Museum, Lakeland; Flying Tigers Warbird Air Museum, Kissimmee [47] Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island; Kissimmee Air Museum, Kissimmee; National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola
Featured in a March 14 publication, the EAA museum was ranked No. 7 behind the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, TWA Museum, Intrepid Museum, National Museum of the US Air Force ...
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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 EAA was founded in 1953 by veteran aviator Paul Poberezny along with other aviation enthusiasts. The organization began as more or less a flying club.Poberezny explains the nature of the organization's name, "Because the planes we flew were modified or built from scratch, they were required to display an EXPERIMENTAL placard where it could be seen on the door or cockpit, so it was quite ...