2026 Registration Closed!

Updated April 24, 2026 20:34 EDT

Hello Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2026 Pilots, Relatives and Friends:

We're excited to inform that the registration period for 2026 has reached its goal. It has been, without a doubt, a successful registration year. We achieved our goal of registering one-hundred-twenty-one (121) aircraft in eighty (80) 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-one (121) 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 18, 2026 5:00 PM CDT (UTC-5).

Second, analysis of nineteen (19) 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 18, 2026 11:00 AM CDT (UTC-5), twenty-six (26) 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-five (85) to ninety (90) aircraft reaching Dodge County Airport (KUNU) in Juneau, Wisconsin by Saturday, July 18, 2026 11:00 AM CDT (UTC-5) ready to fly the mass arrival.

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 requirements 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 2026 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 18, 2026 in Juneau, WI.

Fly safe,

Rodney Swanson
Jason Skelton
Gil Velez