Air Shows & Events

EAA AirVenture is the world’s largest gathering of general aviation aircraft. It is held each July at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wis. Of the approximate 12,000 aircraft that fly in to the southeastern Wisconsin airport, hundreds are vintage and modern warbirds flown in from all over the world by EAA members. Included are bombers […]

It’s been a long, tiring – but ultimately thrilling – week for the AVweb team at EAA AirVenture. Intern Adam should be home by the time you read this, and the remnants of our on-site team and cleaning up and putting the finishing touches on stories for Monday’s regular edition of our AVwebFlash newsletter. Thanks […]

Alan Klapmeier will be replaced as chairman of the board of Cirrus Aircraft by the end of August and it will be up to the board to decide if he continues as a board member. In a wide-ranging podcast interview Saturday, Cirrus Aircraft CEO Brent Wouters told AVweb that Klapmeier has known for “several months” […]

The Kodiak was purpose-built in consultation with mission organizations (supported this year at AirVenture through EAA’s Fly4Life program) to provide a remote area a reliable long-range, short-field, heavy hauler for backcountry operations and this year is beginning to making good on its promise. Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) took delivery of a Quest Aircraft turbine- powered […]

On Thursday, we sent Aviation Safety editor-in-chief Jeb Burnside out to the Seaplane Base at EAA AirVenture. In exchange for his freedom, we demanded pictures – and Jeb brought back three galleries’ worth of awesome snapshots. This is the final of Jeb’s three galleries. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A […]

Virgin Galactic made their first public debut of their newest space lauch vehicle, Eve, at EAA AirVenture 2009. Also known as WhiteKnightTwo, this unique aircraft was designed to carry Space Ship Two, a smaller space vehicle capable of carrying the first commercial space tourists into outer space. Don’t see the panorama viewer? Click the thumbnails […]

Without too much difficulty, this year at AirVenture Oshkosh we found three light sport category ready-to-fly aircraft available for less than $65,000 – the Cheetah, X-Air LS, and the Aerotrek A240. There are others in the price range; this is just a random sample from a group of high-wing, front-engined, tricycle-gear aircraft we saw at […]

Every pilot who flies into Wittman Regional Airport during AirVenture tries to put his or her best foot forward but some come up a little short. While there have so far been no major accidents or injuries at the show (as of Saturday afternoon) pilots do make mistakes and that’s where the Civil Air Patrol […]

A worldwide effort to inspire interest in aviation is being launched next May 15 with the first International Learn To Fly Day. Jason Blair, spokesman for the National Association of Flight Instructors, says the idea is to get those already involved in aviation to spend a day promoting it to their family, friends and coworkers […]

photo by Mary Grady The 2008 WomenVenture gathering featured pink shirts, whereas this year’s featured blue ones. If you want to get a bunch of pilots together, there aren’t many better places to do that than AirVenture at Oshkosh, and this week women aviators worked hard to make the most of that opportunity. On Friday […]