The AirVenture Story Is Also a Numbers Game
By EAA Staff
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Every year, AirVenture writes its own story over a weeklong period at Oshkosh. By the time it’s finished, it’s fair to say that story is a novel.
Every year, AirVenture writes its own story over a weeklong period at Oshkosh. By the time it’s finished, it’s fair to say that story is big as an encylopedia.
One measure of that is the more than 65,000 words written by the AirVenture Today team over eight issues of the daily newspaper distributed on the grounds on July 19-26. That is approximately the same number of words that goes into an average best-selling novel. It also accounted for 62,000 copies of the paper, or 3,312,000 pages.
Those are just a few of the odd and interesting numbers collected during The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration. While some of the major statistics were released shortly after the event ended, number geeks (like us) enjoy some of the others…
- One of the fun post-AirVenture games is watching how long members wear their wristbands before they remove it or it just disintegrates. But, if we took everyone’s wristband when they departed and laid those bands end-to-end, it would stretch for 113 miles…
- The Operation Thirst volunteers made 18,632 sandwiches to feed the other volunteers on the grounds…
- A total of 1,381 people ran, walked, or sauntered in the Runway 5K run/walk on July 25, accounting for 4,281 total miles or approximately the straight-line air distance between Atlanta and London (each of which, during AirVenture week, have international airports less busy than Wittman Regional Airport)…
- The EAA Aviation Museum welcomed 38,000 visitors during the week – roughly one-third of its total annual attendance…
- Along with all the airplanes and people arriving by bus, shuttle, and motorhome, EAA teams parked more than 68,400 cars in our lots during the week, nearly 6,000 more than in 2025. That encompassed 15,800 vehicles parked on July 25, including 7,400 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. alone! …
- A team of volunteers at the Print/Mail Center hand-assembled more than 30,000 buttons that were distributed by various EAA groups during the week…
And finally: 1 - As in one tremendous week that brought together the world of flight like no place else on earth. And in one year, we’ll be ready to do it again (July 26-August 1, 2027)!
