Category: General Aviation

Aviation History In Pennsylvania Exhibit-The State Museum of Pennsylvania

Story and photos by Corey Beitler Located within the State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg, The State Museum of Pennsylvania contains a collection of over five million artifacts that preserve and interpret Pennsylvania and the surrounding region’s history and culture....

Old Gems from Bob Finch

Aeronca 7AC floatplane Bob Finch has some very old slides. He has reproduced a dozen images here as scans from slides in the late 1950s, from Teterboro, NJ and Idlewild Airport, NY.  WACO RNF, note the Meteor Air Transport...

EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2022 – FACTS AND FIGURES FOR A RECORD-SETTING YEAR

Here’s the official media release with facts and figures of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh 2022. The massive celebration of aviation is touted as “Unlike Anything Else”, and for a week in mid-summer in Wisconsin, a huge...

Australian International Air Show 2001

Miles M3A Falcon Major I was very fortunate to be able to attend the 2001 Australian International Air Show… some twenty years ago. It was as much a trade show as it was an air show, and what you...

Aircraft Designs That Are More than 50 Years Old, Part 2

Lockheed L-188 Electra Photos by Ken Kula Every one of these aircraft types were designed over half a century ago, but many are still found flying today. How many do you recognize? DeHavilland DH-114 Heron Fokker 27 Lockheed Constellation...

The Human(-itarian) Side of 2021’s AirVenture

The EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 presented the theme of humanitarian-based aviation in a big way. There were a surprising number of aircraft and organizations present at the July event. The aircraft types ranged from heavy jet transports to a...

EAA’s AirVenture 2021 = EAA AirVenture 2020 (Plus One) And Then Some

  P-51 Mustang at a past AirVenture EAA’s AirVenture 2021 = EAA AirVenture 2020 (Plus One) And Then Some The AirVenture 2020 aviation celebration in Oshkosh, Wisconsin was forced to be cancelled over health concerns associated with the Covid...

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