EAA AirVenture 2002:
The resilience of general aviation was never more in evidence than at EAA’s AirVenture in late July, when an estimated 750,000 airplane buffs made the annu

The resilience of general aviation was never more in evidence than at EAA’s AirVenture in late July, when an estimated 750,000 airplane buffs made the annual pilgrimage to east central Wisconsin for the 50th time.

Homage to the 22 airplanes that gathered at Curtiss-Wright Airport in Milwaukee for the first official EAA fly-in convention in 1953 was dwarfed by the more than 2,500 show aircraft out of nearly 10,000 airplanes that jammed Wittman Field in Oshkosh this year. And that didn’t include those whose pilots opted to land at other nearby airports or splashed down at the EAA Seaplane Base on Lake Winnebago.

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