Unofficial Oshkosh 2022 Thread

[Dan K]

Add B-25 Devil Dog.

[The Ripper]

Some fantastic news today, courtesy of the EAA website:

Military Aviation Museum are taking the Mosquito, Corsair, P-40 and P-51 to Oshkosh!

[kalamazookid]

MAM birds are making the rounds this year. Great to see!

[Dan K]

The WOTN Air Expo attendance list has been a fairly accurate indicator of additional Oshkosh warbird attendees, especially those that travel some distance to get there.

It's neat to see that the CAF's SBD and P-63F have been added to the list.

YAM has already indicated that C-47 "Hairless Joe" will be at KOSH (at least for part of the week).

https://wotn.org/airexpo/

Digressing, I also did not realize until recently that the Lewis F4F-3 was being displayed at the EAA Museum and should still be in Wisconsin at the end of July.

[The Ripper]

Few more additions:

-USN Growlers that were announced back in December have been replaced by the USN F-35C Demo Team.
-USN E-2 Demo Team.
-A-26 “Silver Dragon” self confirmed too. They’re also adding weapon racks underneath the wings too so that will look fantastic.
-VWoC Hurricane.

Not bad!

[The Ripper]

Mentioned on a webinar last night that the Me109G finished in Illinois should be at AirVenture.

Aircorps Aviation P-47D, destined for DTAM, is hoping to be there also.

‘Flight of the Cats’ confirmed with Tigercat, Bearcat, Wildcat and Hellcat. The Tigercat and Wildcat, I think, are from Rod Lewis’ collection and the Hellcat should be from Fagen. No clue on the Bearcat.

MiG-29 should be appearing also on static and displaying throughout the week.

[MKD1966]

‘Flight of the Cats’ confirmed with Tigercat, Bearcat, Wildcat and Hellcat. The Tigercat and Wildcat, I think, are from Rod Lewis’ collection and the Hellcat should be from Fagen.

No clue on the Bearcat.

Maybe the Tom Wood's family Bearcat or John O'Connor's Blue Angel Bearcat...
Mike

[BK]

Plus;
-B-17 Aluminum Overcast if repairs completed will be there. He didn't sound that optimistic.
-Kermit Weeks new A-26 restoration
-F-86F new restoration, Doug Matthews
-F-100 Cutshall
-JN-4 Jenny new restoration
-Mig-17, Randy Ball
-U2 - flying and ground display
-Military demo teams - F-35A, F-35C, Growler, MV-22 and E-2D
-USAF 75th anniv. C-5, C-17, F-16, KC-46, T-38
-UH-60 Blackhawk, HH-60 Pavehawk, MH-47 Chinook, AH-6 Little Bird
-Class of 45, Hawker Sea Fury (Vasquez), Jet Waco, Red Bull Air Force, etc....

Not mentioned but both B-29s will be in the area, Fifi in Appleton Jul 26-27 and Doc the whole week at AV. It'd be a shame not to fly them together again.

[Dan K]

The current list from Lewis is even larger than first thought:

https://lewisairlegends.com/events

[kalamazookid]

The current list from Lewis is even larger than first thought:

https://lewisairlegends.com/events

Wow! This is going to be an awesome year. I've never seen a F3F. It will be nice to see the old Air Zoo Tigercat again as well, which was a huge part of why I became interested in warbirds.

[hurricane_yank]

The current list from Lewis is even larger than first thought:

https://lewisairlegends.com/events

Keeping my fingers crossed that ALL of those craft come...would be AMAZING!

Any announcements on what days the big warbird shows will be?

[Yak 11 Fan]

Been wanting to see De Chrome Cat for years, looks like it's going to be a great year this year.

[Dan K]

Perhaps CAF's SB2C (will be in the Twin Cities on 7/24)...?

[The Ripper]

D-Day Squadron announcing (via Facebook) their intention on sending 7 C-47's with 6 of them displaying.

Looking like this year could be an instant classic for warbirds!

[The Ripper]

CAF Georgia have announced they will be bringing their P-51, SBD and P-63!