The small town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin becomes one of the busiest aviation venues in the world each year for a period just a little more than a week. According to the statistics from EAA’s 2019 summary, the AirVenture this summer hosted more than 642,000 visitors and more than 10,000 aircraft!

The Michigan Flyers Club was well-represented this year, with 5 of our club’s airplanes making the hop across (or around) the lake to attend the EAA AirVenture 2019. Here we document the personal accounts (with pictures!) from a few of the members that got the chance to visit this year! 

Check out this video compilation highlighting some amazing footage of our aircraft, instructors, and students! Thanks to Shawn White for putting this together.

Our members gathered for a late fall flour bombing competition. In this event, we approach the Ann Arbor grass runway from 500 feet, and attempt to hit a target on the ground with sacks of flour.

Members of our club organized Women in Aviation week. We hosted hundreds of students in field trips to the airport, a model rocket launch, and tours of the air traffic control tower.

Our club was featured in a nationwide aviation trade magazine, with an in-depth look at our light-sport aircraft, the Cessna Skycatcher. Read more on AOPA's site.

Last Saturday, six Flyers packed into three of the club's Cessnas and took flight for a beautiful trip up the Detroit River and beyond Lake St. Clair to Port Huron. For two weeks, we'd been planning for such a weekend flight, but bad weather kept us grounded, mulling VFR charts at an Ann Arbor Coney Island.