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EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2020 - cancelled

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:49 pm
by PhilipRueker
Next year's EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2020 is only half a year away.
The dates are going to be July 20th - July 26th.

I haven't quite figured out any detailed plan myself yet, but I am planning to go again and will probably camp again in Camp Scholler like I did this summer.

So who else is planning to go next year? Are you going to fly in, drive in, camp or hotel?

I'm guessing plans will get more concrete the closer we get to the date.

Re: EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2020

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:20 am
by Cluemeister
Hotel booked in Appleton. If everything comes together, will be flying the Tsi into Appleton.

Fingers crossed!

Re: EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2020

Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 12:16 pm
by PhilipRueker
Sadly today EAA had to make the hard, but safe decision to cancel Oshkosh 2020.
May 1, 2020
AirVenture 2020 is officially cancelled

My fellow EAA’rs. It is May here in Wisconsin, and unfortunately like many of you across the country, we are still under a stay at home order through May 26. Normally, this is the month when we start our preflight planning for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. By this time, we should have begun ramping up our entire site in preparation for our July convention. Volunteers from across the country and world would have descended on Oshkosh. Together they would have formed work parties, our suppliers would begin start setting up tents and infrastructure. Our EAA staff would be printing wrist bands, campers guides, programs and an assortment of EAA collateral as full-on AirVenture execution begins.

But because of circumstances beyond our control, none of this can happen now. We cannot even get to the hangar so our preflight is left to watching the prog charts. While this certainly makes the ability to prepare for the event a scheduling problem, it does not preclude the bigger issue of predicting what will be the health guidelines in July. Right now, there are three phases that have been defined in Wisconsin as the recommended procedures. As I write this, we are not in Phase 1 yet. Phase 2 restricts gatherings to 50 people. Phase 3 allows for mass gathering with restrictions.

Our convention attracts EAA members not only from the U.S. but around the world. Today we cannot predict when we will be at a point that our event meets the all clear Phase 3 milestone for mass gathering with restrictions. As your leader, I see no clear path to meet our own requirements to insure the health and safety expectations our organization demands for our employees, members, volunteers, exhibitors and attendees. That includes sanitization, separation and personal protection requirements.

My conclusion is, like in any good flight planning, don’t take the risk. Therefore, I have no choice but to cancel AirVenture 2020. Together, we can come back stronger, safer and ready for AirVenture 2021 and create a memorable world class aviation event. Because of our dedicated and enthusiastic EAA members, our Association is strong. We know that at some point this storm will pass. And over the next 12 months we will continue to support all of you as we again, together, grow EAA in the Spirit of Aviation.

Respectfully,
Jack J. Pelton
Experimental Aircraft Association
CEO and Chairman of the Board
https://eaa.org/eaa/news-and-publicatio ... Sure-Thing

See you in 2021 hopefully.