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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (formerly the EAA Annual Convention and Fly-In), or just Oshkosh, is an annual air show and gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at the Wittman Regional Airport and adjacent Pioneer Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States. The southern part of the show grounds, as well as "Camp Scholler", are located in ...
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 ...
July 7 – A MiG-21 Lancer crashed at the Borcea Air Base in Southern Romania. Rather than ejecting, witnesses said the pilot "stayed on board to fly the plane away from the crowd", of which 3,000 were attending the airshow. The pilot, Florin Rotaru, was killed in the crash.
Major air shows. Royal International Air Tattoo, England (2006) RAF Red Arrows, RAF Waddington Airshow (2013) Airbus Beluga at Airexpo 2014. A Douglas C-54 Skymaster, called Spirit of Freedom, a flying museum regarding the Berlin Airlift, at a Lancaster, Ohio air show (2009) Abbotsford International Airshow.
OSHKOSH – Women in the Navy and Army weren’t allowed to train as pilots until the early 1970s. Even then, they were limited because of laws and policies that prevented them from flying in combat.
On the afternoon of July 23, my friends and I arrived in Oshkosh for the EAA air show. For almost a year, we had been planning our trip. Back home in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia, friends ...
Skywriting over Oshkosh, WI during AirVenture 2008. 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 ...
Four people are dead and two are injured after two aircraft collided in midair and another crashed into a lake Saturday shortly before an air show at a major aviation convention in Oshkosh ...