EAA AirVenture Museum

EAA Airventure Museum

Pioneer Airport

Open Everyday 10 - 5

The flying season is open daily at Pioneer Airport, through Labor Day, with vintage aircraft activities, plus Young Eagles flights. Enjoy a ride on the Travel-Air or Swallow bi-plane. Children age 8 – 17 are able to get a taste of flying with a free Young Eagles flight. More than 50 vintage airplanes are displayed in seven period hangers designed to take you back to aviation’s “Golden Age” of the 1920’s and 30’s. The unique recreation will take you back to a time when the magic of flying astounded and charmed the whole world.

NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION XP-51
In 1940, the British desperately needed fighter aircraft. North American Aviation offered to create an entirely new fighter in just 120 days. The result - the P-51 Mustang - proved to be the most successful and versatile fighter of World War II. A total of over 15,000 were produced. The EAA AirVenture Museum’s XP-51 represents the prototype stage of the Mustang’s development. The fourth P-51 ever built and the oldest to survive, it is one of the Museum’s greatest treasures.

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October 4 and 5, 2008

25^th Anniversary Celebration

Mark your calendar for this celebration for the AirVenture Museum and Aviation Center. The weekend open house will be filled with activities celebrating this milestone. Join us as we look back on the past 25 years and forward to the next.

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“I Learned about Flying from That”- by: Barry Ross

For the past 25 years Barry has illustrated Flying magazine’s monthly feature “I Learned About Flying From That”. These accounts of pilot’s sometimes hair-raising, sometimes funny and always educational experiences are the basis for the paintings that are featured here. He has tried to evoke both the risk and thrill of flight, capture the moment when things have gone awry, and yet give the viewer a hopeful feeling that the crisis will be satisfactorily resolved. Click here for more information.