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BuildAPlane, a non-profit aviation education organization in cooperation with GAMA and EAA, will sponsor Teachers’ Day at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture again this year in Oshkosh, WI. The event is scheduled for July 30th, 2013, and will expose teachers to a variety of programs and curricula that allow educators to put aviation in classrooms, from middle school through high [...]

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 13, 2012 – Bruce’s Custom Covers announced today its donation of a custom fitted aircraft cover to the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) for its 2013 sweepstakes Stearman Model 75 biplane. This iconic aircraft will be fully restored and awarded to one lucky contest winner following its display at the annual AirVenture Fly-in [...]

PEACHTREE CITY, GA - Aircraft Spruce and Peachtree City’s Atlanta Regional Airport-Falcon Field will be hosting local Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) members who will provide school-age children with an opportunity to experience flight in a general aviation airplane at Atlanta Regional Airport-Falcon Field on Saturday, Nov 3rd, Noon-4pm. The EAA Young Eagles program is designed [...]

From the moment you mount the crew ladder of the only flying B-29 Superfortress, you begin to appreciate the men in their 20s who more than six decades ago took these revolutionary bombers into battle over Japan. That's the passion the Commemorative Air Force wants you to feel as FIFI motors over Wisconsin during AirVenture [...]

EAA Chapter 1343 and GTO Aviation, Inc. are hosting a Tennessee Valley regional fly in and expo on Saturday June 23, 2012 at Sumner County Regional Airport (M33). This all-day event will feature a pancake breakfast, live music, catered lunch, displays, vendors, educational sessions and lots of airplanes. We have invited all EAA chapters in [...]

With about 80 days remaining until opening day on July 23, this year's AirVenture preview video ought to whet your appetite for the World's Greatest Aviation Celebration. This year we celebrate the "Greatest Generation in the Air" with tributes to the Doolittle Raiders and Tuskegee Airmen, the Piper Cub's 75th anniversary, and Van's RV 40th [...]

Five years ago, 14-year-old Savannah Weaver of Millbrook was sitting in the back seat of a little Cessna Aircraft on the runway at Wetumpka Municipal Airport, nervous but eager to take her inaugural air flight. Saturday at that same spot, Weaver was sitting in the front seat of a similar Cessna, no longer nervous but [...]