The Unofficial Oshkosh 2025 Thread

[JohnTerrell]

I would like to see a type breakdown of the 361 warbirds EAA says were in attendance.

I'm not sure if you saw my post at the top of page 7 of this thread, where I listed about 100 of the heavier-hitters with regard to warbirds in attendance this year: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=74485&start=90

I didn't include Tony Phillippi's Howard 500, even though it was parked in warbirds - EAA probably did count that as one of the warbirds.

That means about 260 would have been the single-engine prop and jet trainers, and liaison types, which I didn't cover in my list.

[JohnB]

Yes, I saw your list of the "usual suspects"... the big name types. Thanks for posting them.
I was asking more about the "little guys"...the trainers, etc.
Just curious and trying to get a feel about the relative popularity of various types.

I'd assume the EAA would call all Stearman 75s "warbirds", but I wonder about other types...for example would they call call all Beech 17s (or even 18s) warbirds?

[JohnTerrell]

I believe it's all a matter as to where they park - Garbs would be able to confirm or deny if that's true. For instance, from my understanding, if a Stearman, Beech 18 or DC-3 only parks in Vintage, it doesn't get counted in Warbirds, but if the same aircraft parks in Warbirds, then it is counted as a warbird. Warren Pietsch's P-51C likely got counted twice, once for Vintage and once for Warbird, since it spent time parked in both locations during the week. The fantastic Royal Navy-finished Beech Staggerwing N16S only parked in Vintage and was registered in Vintage, so therefore would likely not have been included in EAA's warbird numbers.