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Construction continues on the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh grounds with enthusiastic support from the EAA Board of Directors.

Advance tickets are now available for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, "The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration," which is coming July 27-August 2, 2009, at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.

Each year, the spirit, enthusiasm and innovation within aviation come together in one place, known simply as "Oshkosh." Preparations for the 57th annual edition of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh - The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration - are already underway, getting ready for the event at Wittman Regional Airport on July 27-August 2, 2009.

Stakes in the ground, buildings on blocks, heavy equipment, mounds of fresh earth, stacks of saplings with canvas-wrapped roots ... they're all signs that work on the AirVenture site enhancements has begun.

GE is sharing the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh story with hundreds of thousands of visitors to its website in a specially produced video now featured on the corporation's home page.

It was Thursday, July 31, the night of the annual Gathering of Eagles fundraiser at AirVenture, and Michael Kenny was en route to joining his colleagues from Pilatus Aircraft, Ltd. when suddenly his phone rang. The 37-year-old Irishman saw it was from his father, Patrick, who was calling from home in Cork, Ireland.

Talk about your great timing ... As aerobatic pilot Alan Henley lay in his Alabama hospital bed last Saturday morning recovering from his severe injuries in a non-aviation home accident, a computer was brought into the room. About an hour later, the AeroShell Aerobatic Team Lead took cyber-delivery of the world's biggest get well card that read, "Get Well Alan."

Leaders from the FAA and from both houses of Congress flocked to AirVenture once again to meet face to face with EAA members and to get a firsthand look at how their decisions will affect pilots and aviation enthusiasts from around the country.

One woman from Italy lost her international cell phone. Another woman from Australia lost her camera's memory card, filled with her family's entire U.S. vacation. Both were turned in at AirVenture's General Information Services, which includes lost and found.

EAA President Tom Poberezny said he was asked one question daily in the months prior to the start of AirVenture Oshkosh 2008: Will anyone come to the fly-in convention with high fuel prices and a struggling economy?

Final numbers won't be in for a few days, but nearly all indications point to a resounding success for EAA AirVenture 2008.

EAA's annual Memorial Wall ceremony honors, celebrates, and offers remembrance on behalf of dearly departed EAA members and aviation enthusiasts.

EAA director Fred Telling discussed the EAA Founders' Wing Saturday with a group of EAA chapter representatives during the Chapter Leaders Breakfast, held in the EAA AirVenture Museum.

EAA honored Randall Fishman, EAA 794189, of Cliffside Park, New Jersey, with the 2008 Dr. August Raspet Memorial Award for his accomplishment in developing and flying an electric-powered aircraft.

Every year PADA, the Personal Aircraft Design Academy, awards its perpetual trophy to a personal aircraft designer innovator who advanced the state of the art in aircraft performance and efficiency.

An electric-powered airplane flew over the main air show runway at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh today, and it wowed the crowd with its quietness.

The new Flight Design MC, introduced this week at EAA AirVenture, is the 2009 Sweepstakes plane, thanks to the generosity of Flight Design GmbH and Flight Design USA and their support of EAA's youth initiatives.

Friday's International Visitor's Parade drew hundreds of participants that clearly demonstrated AirVenture's global presence this year.

They looked like anyone else wandering the showplane lines and vendor displays at AirVenture this year: shorts, T-shirts, camcorders, sunburn.

Steve Krog, EAA 173799, of Hartford, Wisconsin, will receive the 2008 Bax Seat Trophy tonight at 7 p.m. during a special ceremony at the Theater in the Woods.