Welcome to Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2025!
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Updated February 03, 2025 08:41 EST
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Greetings Everyone!
Craig, Gil and myself extend a hearty welcome to Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2025. This is our 19th year that we will be flying the mass arrival into EAA AirVenture and we are looking forward to seeing all our friends again.
Due to your hard work and diligence, EAA and the FAA have approved us to fly 90 aircraft this year. Also, all the type groups worked together and found common ground to solve a problem that the EAA and FAA had identified. That problem was who gets the "prime" arrival day and time. For 2025, Cessnas 2 Oshkosh will have the 1700hr arrival on Saturday the 19th of July. The formal timeline of events will be published later on the registration page.
As I have mentioned over the last couple of years, Craig, Gil and myself have been doing this for quite a number of years and we feel that it is time to start transitioning to a younger leadership team. We have not made any substantive changes in the event in over 12 years and even though all of you seem to be happy and satisfied, we believe that a different set of eyes may be necessary. This transition will be a multi-year process to ensure continuity in the event.
Many of you have met my replacement over the last couple of years. Jason Skelton is a CFII airplane/helicopter and CH-47 Test Pilot Examiner. He possesses a wealth of organizational skills along with a lovely wife and two sons. Ellen Skelton will also be taking over at the registration table replacing C2O veterans Steve and Julie Wolf. You can reach Jason at: jason.f.sskelton@gmail.com.
Craig and his unparalleled sponsorship/corporate communication skills will be replaced by Nick Thornsbury and Stacey Higgins. This position, behind the scenes, allows C2O to function financially. Without our generous sponsors C2O would not be the event you deserve and Craig has built up a fabulous list of sponsors. He also coordinates the manufacture of our shirts which has been a big hit (except for the shirt fiasco of 2014, Goldenrod does not look like baby crap). You can reach Nick Thornsbury and Stacey Higgins at Sponsorship@cessnas2oshkosh.com.
The most important position in our organization is Gil's. He usually does not occupy a front row seat in either Juneau or Oshkosh but without him we would have crumbled in 2008. He is the "keeper of the code" for our website and our payment system. He handles most of the communication with you throughout the year and most importantly he provides the extensive information I need to generate the flight roster. We have not identified a replacement for Gil. If you have better than average computer skills, a working knowledge of HTML5 and SQL coding and a desire to work hard for no other payment than a job well done, email Gil at Gil@cessnas2oshkosh.com.
This year, registration will start 03 Feb 25 and it will close when we have 115 registrations, so don't tarry.
We are super excited to have started the planning for Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2025 and we eagerly anticipate seeing you in Juneau in July. Start practicing your formation skills, get your plane ready and we will see soon! Thank you for your continued support! It truly has been an honor for us to coordinate Cessnas 2 Oshkosh. We look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday, July 19, 2025 in Juneau, WI.
Blue Skies!
Rodney, Craig and Gil
Every pilot must program each waypoint used in the mass arrival flight into his/her GPS unit. Except POBER, all the waypoints are user waypoints.
