EAA To Jumpstart Five Chapter Building Projects At AirVenture Oshkosh 2015

The EAA One Week Wonder project held at AirVenture 2014 was a smashing success and now EAA has found a way to include EAA chapters in a program to help them get projects started. Their calling the program “Jumpstart,” and like the One Week Wonder project, it will allow attendees to at AirVenture to watch the real building of a real project in process.

Any EAA chapter looking for an aircraft building project has the opportunity to get a Jumpstart. This summer at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015, EAA will build on the success of the One Week Wonder project by constructing five sets of wings for various types of kit-built aircraft. The project, which will take place on Celebration Way in the main crossroads of the AirVenture grounds, aims to showcase the world of homebuilding as well as raise awareness of the worldwide EAA chapter network to the thousands of people who attend Oshkosh.

Volunteers will construct the wings on each of the seven days of the convention, and anyone who walks by can participate by pulling a rivet. The completed wings will then be shipped off to five different EAA chapters to help them Jumpstart a chapter build project. The chapters will receive the completed wings for free, but they will be responsible for raising the funds to complete the aircraft. EAA is in the process of determining which kit manufacturers want to participate in the project.

EAA chapters are allowed to build aircraft, but they are not allowed to operate them, so the finished aircraft would have to be sold. EAA is specifically looking for chapters that would commit to selling the aircraft to a worthy cause, such as to a group forming a flying club, or for missionary purposes.

An EAA chapter that is interested in receiving a set of the wings constructed at AirVenture Oshkosh 2015, should e-mail Charlie Becker at: cbecker@eaa.org.

(Image of One Week Wonder from file)

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