Aircraft

Oshkosh visitors get a close-up look at the Dreamliner.

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner touched down at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on Friday morning for the composite-construction airliner’s highly anticipated public debut in North America. It spent the day parked on the EAA AirVenture display line, and was open to anyone who wanted to walk through. This was the first time the public was […]

FIFI, the worlds only airworthy B-29, made her entrance at EAA AirVenture yesterday. Check her out, along with other highlights from this year’s AirVenture, in the video below.

Can’t be at AirVenture this year? We’ll bring the show to you! There has been no shortage of news, sights and unexpected events at this year’s show. Check out the links below to get the scoop. The Best of AirVenture 2011 in Photos Pictures from AirVenture 2011 Day 1 Pictures from AirVenture 2011 Day 2 […]

Aerostar Aircraft Corporation showed up on Tuesday at AirVenture with a Pratt & Whitney PW615-powered 601P Aerostar modification. It was the first public showing of the airplane, which is undergoing early flight test and configuration. The airplane is a work in progress in many respects. There are no boots on it yet. The pressurization system […]

Have you ever wondered why the departure procedures from Oshkosh and its surrounding airports are so brief compared to the complex arrival procedures that govern airplanes heading into the show. It’s an easy explanation. Think of airplanes as being water flowing to Oshkosh and of Oshkosh as being a big puddle of airplanes located directly […]

Angelo Fiataruolo wasn’t even supposed to be in Oshkosh this week, but after Diamond Aircraft pulled out of AirVenture at the last minute – citing a need to focus its economic resources solely on the D-Jet certification program – the president of Diamond dealer KCAC in Kansas City stepped up to the plate by taking […]

Aircraft distributor SportairUSA is bringing a new LSA option to the American market, and an aerobatic one at that. On Tuesday at EAA AirVenture the company unveiled a prototype of the aircraft, which is a single-seat, 130 horsepower aerobatic LSA known as the Snap. The Snap is a low-wing taildragger manufactured in Italy by Dallair […]

As the 2011 AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, hit the halfway mark, Icon Aircraft had received deposits for 65 Icon A5 airplanes during the show. Crowds filed into Icon’s dimly lit booth to watch the A5’s wings fold and unfold, and to place their $2,000 show special deposits. For each deposit accepted at the show, Icon […]

Despite great uncertainty within the FAA, Administrator Randy Babbitt took some time to show support for the general aviation community today by stopping by EAA AirVenture. With 4,000 FAA employees still furloughed and 70,000 construction workers commissioned for aviation-related projects out of a job, Babbitt gave little indication of an expected end to the shutdown. […]