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How to Navigate the Warbirds at AirVenture

The most popular place at the world’s biggest aviation event deserves some pre-planning.

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Key Takeaways:

  • The Warbirds area at EAA AirVenture is a highly popular and dynamic attraction, featuring hundreds of privately-owned historic military aircraft, often including newly restored models, grouped by type.
  • Visitors can enhance their experience through guided tram tours, "Warbirds in Review" lectures by owners, an immersive 1944-era Living History Encampment, and youth flight simulators.
  • It is essential to observe flightline etiquette by not touching valuable aircraft without permission; additionally, displays are dynamic and managed by 600 volunteers, with optimal viewing times varying for static displays or flight operations.
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The Warbirds area is one of the most popular parts of EAA AirVenture, and also one of the most populated and the most dynamic. The Warbird display area is located on the north end of Oshkosh’s Wittman Field (KOSH), and it’s accessible by footpath or by tram. The aircraft are grouped by use. Usually, the fighters are parked together as are the training aircraft, the liaison birds, helicopters, jets, and larger transports and bombers.

Bill Fischer, executive director of EAA Warbirds of America, is anticipating a good turnout this year. 

Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.

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