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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 ...
The EAA Aviation Museum, off Interstate 41 at the Highway 44 exit in Oshkosh, is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. EAA members receive free museum admission year-round. Call 920-426-4818 for more ...
Here are this week's can't-miss events in the Oshkosh area. Oshkosh events include TEDxOshkosh, Turkey Bowl, Vintage Fest, EAA Speaker Series Skip to main content
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]
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.
In 2013, Tucker was appointed Chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) program Young Eagles, which introduces and educates children aged 8 to 17 about aviation. It has given flights to over 2 million children around the world. Tucker is an annual fixture at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow each summer.
Starlight Aerial Productions will have a 500-drone performance on two separate nights during EAA AirVenture.
During EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, two additional temporary runways are in operation to accommodate the high volume of traffic of numerous aircraft sizes and types: a portion of Taxiway A to the east of runway 18/36 becomes Runway 18L/36R (Runway 18/36 is re-designated 18R/36L and shortened to 6,700 feet) and a small grass runway (1,200 x 100 feet ...