Now that it’s winding down, we can say it definitively: 2019 had some blockbuster stories, the top ten of which we’ve recognized here. As is always the case in aviation, where nothing except the planes themselves go very fast, many of the stories are high, or low, points in long-running tales while others are encapsulations of movements that have been hinted at before and that arrived fully formed in the past year. All of them, it’s safe to say, have roots in the past along and will surely continue to affect GA, some of them for years or decades to come.
7. Best AirVenture Ever?
The EAAâs annual get together for a couple hundred thousand folks in Oshkosh, Wisconsin was a spectacular show, with near perfect weather, big crowds and lots of really cool planes. Oshkosh is always good. This one was special.