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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 museum opened an Education Center in July 2022. [3] The new building includes a Pilot Proficiency Center. [4]
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 ...
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 ...
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The first EAA fly-in was held in September 1953 at what is now Timmerman Field as a small part of the Milwaukee Air Pageant, fewer than 150 people registered as visitors the first year and only a handful of airplanes attended the event. In 1959, the EAA fly-in grew too large for the Air Pageant and moved to Rockford, Illinois. [8]
OSHKOSH ― The accolades keep coming. Travel + Leisure, a travel magazine based in New York, is the latest entity to acknowledge the Experimental Aircraft Association, having listed its aviation ...
EAA AirVenture 2004 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.
The Los Angeles Times called it "one of the greatest public events in the history of the West." 1910: Harvard-Boston Aero Meet at the Harvard Aviation Field in Atlantic, Massachusetts, from September 3 to September 13, 1910. It was the first major air event in the eastern United States and offered $90,000 in prizes and appearance fees.