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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (formerly The EAA Annual Convention and Fly-In) is an annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States. The airshow is sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), an international organization based in Oshkosh, and is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The show lasts a week, usually beginning on the last Monday in July. During the gathering, the airport's control tower is the busiest in the world .[

EAA was founded in 1953 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as an organization for those builders and restorers of recreational aircraft. Althoughhomebuilding is still a large part of the organization's activities, it has grown to include almost every aspect of recreational aviation andaeronautics. The first EAA fly-in was held in 1953 in Hales Corners, Wisconsin. In 1959, the EAA fly-in moved to Rockford, Illinois. In 1970, when it outgrew its facilities at the Rockford airport, it moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

For many years the official name of the event was The EAA Annual Convention and Fly-In. In 1998, the name was changed toAirVenture Oshkosh, but many regular attendees still call it as The Oshkosh Airshow or just Oshkosh. For many years, access to the flight line was restricted to EAA members; this restriction was lifted in the late 1990s, when visitors to the airshow paid for membership at the event. EAA AirVenture holds nearly 1,000 forums and workshops.