Always and Everywhere

Hartzell Propeller—the American manufacturer of composite and aluminum aircraft propellers, propeller spinners, governors, and ice-protection systems—is planning to put forth an ambitious and extensive showing at EAA’s AirVenture 2023.

The storied, Piqua, Ohio-based aviation marque intends to grace Oshkosh with a lavish array of airplanes, propellers, airshow pilots, special deals for backcountry flyers, pilot proficiency sessions, and even Warbird tram tours.

EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 2023 gets underway Monday, 24 July and runs through Sunday, 30 July.

Hartzell Propeller’s outdoor exhibit at Booth 296-297 will showcase numerous forward-thinking props featuring bleeding-edge material and manufacturing technologies. The booth lineup includes:

• A Van’s RV-14 with 3-blade Explorer prop
• Recreational Aviation Foundation’s Cessna 185 with 3-blade Voyager prop
• Two-blade Trailblazer propellers
• Five-blade TBM propellers
• Five-blade Kodiak propellers
• Two-blade blended airfoils

Hartzell five-blade carbon-fiber propellers will also be exhibited by: Blackhawk Aerospace (Booth 322), Epic Aircraft (Booth 235), and MagniX (Booth NASA).

Additionally, Diamond Aircraft (Booth 9) will display a DA40-NG aircraft fitted with Hartzell’s three-blade carbon-fiber Polaris propeller.

Wipaire (Booth 162) will exhibit a Wipaire Cessna Caravan sporting Hartzell’s four-blade carbon-fiber Yukon propeller.

The entirety of the Kodiak and TBM family aircraft being brought to Oshkosh by French aircraft manufacturer Daher (Booth 387) will feature five-blade carbon-fiber Hartzell propellers.

OEMs Pilatus Business Aircraft (Booth 124) and Piper Aircraft (Booth 140) will display specimens of their respective turboprop models decked-out in Hartzell five-blade propellers.

In addition, Aviat Aircraft (Booth 205), American Champion Aircraft (Booth 223-224) CubCrafters (Booth 272-274), and Van’s Aircraft (Booth 604-605 & 618-619) plan, one and all, to display aircraft fitted with Hartzell’s two-blade carbon-fiber Trailblazer propellers.

Hartzell’s high-performance propellers are the first choice of many all-star aerobatic pilots slated to perform at AirVenture 2023, to include: Michael Goulian, Kevin Coleman, Greg Koontz, Matt Younkin, Bill Stein, Jim Peitz, and Ken Rieder of the Redline Airshows team. Sean Tucker will also be on hand to support the EAA Young Eagles program.

AirVenture 2023 will see Hartzell Propeller further its relationship with the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) via the provision of $1,000 discounts applicable to all new Hartzell backcountry propellers sold to RAF members over the duration of the weeklong event. What’s more, for each propeller sold to an RAF member, Hartzell Propeller will donate $250 to the organization.

The propellers to which the RAF partnership pertains are Hartzell’s:

• Voyager: a three-blade, aluminum, scimitar model optimized for Cessna’s 180, 182, 185, and 206 aircraft.
• Pathfinder: a three-blade Raptor series, carbon-fiber composite propeller compatible with CubCrafters’s XCub, Carbon-Cub FX, and numerous additional Experimental category aircraft.
• Trailblazer: a two- or three-blade carbon-fiber composite propeller available for various American Champion, American Legend, Aviat, Avipro, CubCrafters, Glasair, and Maule aircraft models.

Several of the aforementioned propellers are offered through Hartzell’s Top Prop Performance Conversions program, and are designed to maximize the performance of backcountry aircraft.

In addition, Hartzell has developed a new two-blade lightweight Raptor series carbon-fiber blended airfoil (BA) propeller for Van’s Aircraft RV models, and a new two-blade carbon-fiber composite propeller option for Lancair’s speedy 360 model.

Hartzell, as of 17 July 2023, is offering an additional $500 bundle purchase discount to builders of RV aircraft who concomitantly order a Lycoming engine and a Hartzell propeller. By dint of subject offer, the current published cost of the engine/propeller combo will be discounted a total of $1,500. The additional $500 price reduction for the Hartzell propeller portion of the bundle is available and effective on orders placed through the end of 2023. Hartzell propellers currently on open order and purchased under the previous engine/propeller bundle qualify for the additional $500 discount—which will be automatically applied.

Hartzell Propeller and Hartzell Engine Tech are also promoting the EAA Pilot Proficiency Center (PPC)—an advanced facility dedicated to providing aviators of all skill levels—from the greenest student-pilots to the saltiest ATPs—opportunity to improve their flying and decision-making skills by way of state-of-the-art Redbird flight simulators and informative presentations.

To honor the aircraft and military veteran pilots by which freedom has been resolutely defended throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries, Hartzell Propeller is sponsoring the ground-tram tours by which AirVenture attendees will be conveyed to the event’s central Warbirds in Review exhibit and familiarized with the rare-and-wondrous WWII, Korean, and Vietnam Era aircraft therein.

The AirVenture Warbird Tram Tour operates Monday through Saturday from 08:00 to 14:00 CDT. The thirty-minute, narrated tours—the route of which covers all 12 zones of the Warbirds area—are free to all AirVenture attendees. The tours afford young and old alike close-up encounters with hundreds of fighters, bombers, transports, trainers, and other species of military aircraft at once steeped in history, bloodshed, terror, victory, and American national pride.

The tram station at which the tours begin is located at the intersection of Eide Rd. and the P1 taxiway, adjacent to Warbirds Alley. A Warbirds area site map is provided free of charge to all AirVenture guests. 2023 marks the attraction’s 14th year. 

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