The Experimental Aircraft Association's Aircraft Museum is home to more than 200 aircraft, exhibits, hangars and event space. This replica of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, built in 1977 by the EAA, accumulated more than 1,300 hours of flight time between 1977 and 1988.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Visitors to the EAA grounds in Oshkosh walk past one of several vintage hangars at Pioneer Airport, which shows off the early days of aviation. This hangar was constructed by Bernard Pietenpol in the 1940s and was moved in 1984 from rural Cherry Grove, Minnesota, to Oshkosh. It tells the story of the Pietenpol Air Camper, one of the first, relatively simple airplane kits to be developed.
Aircraft fill the EAA grounds at the 2018 AirVenture that drew about 600,000 people. It included thousands of campers and airplanes, many of them parked along one of the two runways at Wittman Regional Airport. This image was taken from the seat of a plane that was part of the GEICO Skytypers precision flight team.
Like most museums, not all artifacts are on display at the EAA Aviation Museum. The archives, overseen by Ben Page, hold thousands of items including, at left, several donated by Frank Borman, an astronaut on the Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions.
Visitors to the EAA grounds in Oshkosh can not only view vintage aircraft but take rides in a bi-plane at Pioneer Airport, located adjacent to the main museum complex.
A P-38 Lightning fighter from Lockheed is one of the showpieces of the EAA Aviation Museum's Eagle Hangar that opened in 1989 to highlight World War II aircraft. Richard Bong, a decorated fighter pilot from northern Wisconsin, flew a P-38 when he shot down 40 Japanese planes. Bong died in 1945 while testing a P-80 Shooting Star jet in California.
The EAA Aviation Museum opened in 1983 in Oshkosh and has grown over the years to include more than 200 aircraft, a hangar that houses World War II aircraft and Pioneer Airport, a series of hangars that celebrate the early days of aviation.
A flashlight carried into space by astronaut Frank Borman is displayed at the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh. Borman, who flew on the Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions, donated his personal collection last year to the museum.
Children are allowed to sit in the cockpit of this half-scale model of an F-22 Raptor jet, part of the KidsVenture Gallery at the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh.
John Ross, a volunteer at EAA for nearly three decades, is also a tour guide who speaks enthusiastically about the early days of aviation. Here, Ross shows off a Pietenpol Air Camper, one of the first, relatively simple airplane kits to be developed in the late 1920s.
The Experimental Aircraft Association's Aircraft Museum is home to more than 200 aircraft, exhibits, hangars and event space. This replica of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, built in 1977 by the EAA, accumulated more than 1,300 hours of flight time between 1977 and 1988.
The EAA Aviation Museum opened in 1983 in Oshkosh and has grown over the years to include more than 200 aircraft, a hangar that houses World War II aircraft and Pioneer Airport, a series of hangars that celebrate the early days of aviation.
John Ross, a volunteer at EAA for nearly three decades, is also a tour guide who speaks enthusiastically about the early days of aviation. Here, Ross shows off a Pietenpol Air Camper, one of the first, relatively simple airplane kits to be developed in the late 1920s.
Like most museums, not all artifacts are on display at the EAA Aviation Museum. The archives, overseen by Ben Page, hold thousands of items including, at left, several donated by Frank Borman, an astronaut on the Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions.
Visitors to the EAA grounds in Oshkosh can not only view vintage aircraft but take rides in a bi-plane at Pioneer Airport, located adjacent to the main museum complex.
A P-38 Lightning fighter from Lockheed is one of the showpieces of the EAA Aviation Museum's Eagle Hangar that opened in 1989 to highlight World War II aircraft. Richard Bong, a decorated fighter pilot from northern Wisconsin, flew a P-38 when he shot down 40 Japanese planes. Bong died in 1945 while testing a P-80 Shooting Star jet in California.
A flashlight carried into space by astronaut Frank Borman is displayed at the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh. Borman, who flew on the Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 missions, donated his personal collection last year to the museum.
Visitors to the EAA grounds in Oshkosh walk past one of several vintage hangars at Pioneer Airport, which shows off the early days of aviation. This hangar was constructed by Bernard Pietenpol in the 1940s and was moved in 1984 from rural Cherry Grove, Minnesota, to Oshkosh. It tells the story of the Pietenpol Air Camper, one of the first, relatively simple airplane kits to be developed.
Aircraft fill the EAA grounds at the 2018 AirVenture that drew about 600,000 people. It included thousands of campers and airplanes, many of them parked along one of the two runways at Wittman Regional Airport. This image was taken from the seat of a plane that was part of the GEICO Skytypers precision flight team.
Children are allowed to sit in the cockpit of this half-scale model of an F-22 Raptor jet, part of the KidsVenture Gallery at the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh.
