Number of Oshkosh homebuilts on the grounds

[chrispratt]

I left Saturday morning and there was still a pretty good wait for takeoff -- about 45 minutes of "taxi" time. By Saturday anybody who came in over the previous weekend has pretty much seen everything -- air shows, night air show, vendors, etc. and experienced every weather condition. So as the crowds pick of on Friday and the lines get longer, it's time to go.

Chris

[Gary Baker]

I believe that we will see the final number of homebuilts registered at OSH will be close to or over 900 for the week. This includes homebuilts parked anywhere outside of the Homebuilt Parking area.

[boom3]

Originally Posted by Gary Baker

I believe that we will see the final number of homebuilts registered at OSH will be close to or over 900 for the week. This includes homebuilts parked anywhere outside of the Homebuilt Parking area.

Hi Gary,
Does EAA post the final numbers anywhere publicly?

[Jerry Fischer]

I received from HB HQ was about 400 campers in HBC. We were busy up until Thursday, then started to taper off through Saturday. I left the grounds at 2 AM Sunday morning to drive back to north Georgia
Laundry about done, camping gear put away & like Scott said, Life is good

[DanH]

Originally Posted by Jerry Fischer

I received from HB HQ was about 400 campers in HBC. We were busy up until Thursday, then started to taper off through Saturday. I left the grounds at 2 AM Sunday morning to drive back to north Georgia
Laundry about done, camping gear put away & like Scott said, Life is good

And a BIG, BIG thanks to Jerry, who really hauled the load all week!

[Jerry Fischer]

& also the Beer Fairy, wherever she is

[DanH]

Originally Posted by Ironflight

We have left on the last Sunday evening a couple of years - and Louise once left on Monday morning. On Sunday night, you are ALMOST the only airplane anywhere on the grass - and on Monday morning, you have to explain to the Tower why you ARE parked in the grass....

In 1998 I may have been the last guy off the field, on Friday, 4 days after the show closed. The weather went IFR on Sunday evening (back then it was awards night) and stayed IFR all week. The VFR people, mostly vendors with display airplanes who could not leave early, were camping in the local motels. You would go downstairs to get coffee at dawn, and there would be 30 scruffy pilots draped over lobby chairs, staring at the Weather Channel like zombies.

That Friday I made it all the way to Watertown, scud-running a WWI biplane at 60 mph. We were sooooo glad to leave OSH...

[sprucemoose]

Originally Posted by rvdreaming

My wife & I ...AKA ~ pair of 8's, parked our machines at Brennand ( 79C )...so 445 and counting.

That orange vest would be me. 443 was the actual count of RVs on the field at Oshkosh (your's don't get counted- sorry) which is about 40 off the record we set in 2012 for the 40th anniversary, but up slightly from 2013.

The question of total number of airplanes is surprisingly hard to answer. We use registrations as the official total, but that is not accurate since a significant number of folks do not register. I'd guestimate that number as high as 10% but there is no way to know for sure. I do know that based on registrations, in 2009 homebuilts passed Vintage for the first time, and we've never looked back.