2025 Registration Closed!
Updated April 09, 2025 14:57 EDT
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Hello Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2025 Pilots, Relatives and Friends:
We're excited to inform that the registration period for 2025 has reached its goal. It has been, without a doubt, a successful registration year. We achieved our goal of registering one-hundred-twenty (120) aircraft in sixty (60) days, the vast majority of them within the first five (5) days. We thank each of you for your enthusiastic support.
Why stop registration at one-hundred-twenty (120) aircraft? The leadership of Cessnas 2 Oshkosh arrived at this number based on two facts:
First, the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), the FAA Oshkosh Air Traffic Operations Manager and Cessnas 2 Oshkosh (C2O) agreed to execute a ninety (90) aircraft mass arrival into Wittman Regional Airport on Saturday, July 19, 2025 5:00 PM CDT (UTC-5).
Second, analysis of eighteen (18) years of data collected by Cessnas 2 Oshkosh showed that C2O experiences a twenty-five (25%) to thirty (30%) percent attrition rate each year from the closure of registration to the Juneau check-in deadline. What this means is that, using this statistic fact, we can safely project that between now and Saturday, July 19, 2025 11:00 AM CDT (UTC-5), twenty-four (24) to thirty-six (36) pilots will withdraw from participation for different personal, family, work, weather or mechanical reasons. Therefore, we can safely count on eighty-four (84) to ninety (90) aircraft reaching Dodge County Airport (KUNU) in Juneau, Wisconsin by Saturday, July 19, 2025 11:00 AM CDT (UTC-5) ready to fly the mass arrival.
What would happen if more than ninety (90) aircraft reach Juneau ready to fly the mass arrival by Saturday, July 19, 2025 11:00 AM CDT (UTC-5)?
In that case, since the ninety (90) aircraft limit is a hard stop determined by flight operations at EAA and the FAA Oshkosh Air Traffic Operations Manager, we will include in the mass arrival flight, out of the aircraft on the ground at Juneau, the first ninety (90) aircraft whose PIC registered. The order of registration is shown on the 2025 Main Roster page on our website. We will not take into consideration any other criteria. The aircraft not included in the mass arrival flight will arrive Oshkosh via the Fisk arrival. We will make every effort in our discussions with EAA ground operations to have these aircraft marshaled to Cessna BaseCamp to join the mass arrival group. The decision to allow this is beyond our control and we cannot guarantee this outcome.
We would like to remind those who stated that they would not be camping with their aircraft at Cessna BaseCamp in the North 40 that the EAA flight and ground operations leadership decided that those aircraft must park and will be marshalled to General Aircraft Parking, whether they flew with the main arrival group or separately via the Fisk arrival.
We would also like to remind every registered PIC that the three absolute criteria to participate in the mass arrival flight are still current and will be enforced without exception. For more information on these requirements, visit our Training page. We encourage every pilot intending to fly the mass arrival flight to sign up for a formation training clinic early and get the training requirement out of the way. The schedule of the 2025 Clinics is posted on our Clinics page. Pilots who intend to participate in the mass arrival flight may sign up for a clinic very easily by following this link: Clinic Registration.
We hope to see each one of you on Saturday, July 19, 2025 in Juneau, WI.
Fly safe,
Rodney Swanson
Jason Skelton
Gil Velez