Next year will be the EAA’s 50th fly-in in Oshkosh and organizers are hoping to bring people back from the first one.
EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski says they’re reaching out to owners of the showplanes that came to the first show in 1970 to bring them back.
Knapinski says they also want to talk with people about what the event was like in the first year. He says they plan to put together some of the stories to show how AirVenture has grown over the years.
The first EAA fly-in was in Milwaukee in 1953. It moved to Rockford, Illinois in 1959 before coming to Oshkosh in 1970.
