Aviation in Wisconsin

• 1953 - The Experimental Aircraft Association is founded in Hales Corners.
• 1962, September 6 - Korabl-Sputnik 1 re-enters and imbeds itself into a street in Manitowoc.{{cite web|title=When Sputnik Crashed in Wisconsin Half a century later, the town of Manitowoc commemorates its biggest day ever|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/articles/when-sputnik-crashed-wisconsin-180952388/|access-date=September 1, 2014}}
• 1970 - The Experimental Aircraft Association moves its airshow to Oshkosh. The airshow has grown to become the largest annual airshow in the United States.[http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08183_OshKosh.html Biggest Annual U.S. Air Show to Salute NASA's 50th Anniversary] NASA, July 23, 2008
• 1984 - Cirrus Aircraft is founded in a rural Baraboo barn.

• American Champion, Rochester 1980 – present, builds modern variations of the Aeronca Champion.
• Basler Turbo Conversions, Oshkosh 1957 – present, manufactures Basler BT-67s by retrofitting Douglas DC-3 aircraft with Turboprop engines.{{cite web|title=Basler BT-67|url=http://www.baslerturbo.com/cohistory.aspx|access-date=March 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430091921/http://www.baslerturbo.com/cohistory.aspx|archive-date=April 30, 2011|url-status=dead}}
• Champion Aircraft, Osceola 1954 − present, acquired by AviaBellanca Aircraft Corporation in 1970.
• DarkAero, Madison 2017 − present, building a high-performance kit aircraft design.{{Cite web|url=https://www.darkaero.com/aircraft/|title=Aircraft |website=www.darkaero.com |access-date = October 24, 2023|archive-url = https://archive.today/20200609221847/https://www.darkaero.com/aircraft/|archive-date = June 9, 2020|url-status= live}}
• Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee 1918 – 1929, maker of propellers.
• Hamilton Metalplane Company, Milwaukee − 1927, sold to Boeing, maker of the Hamilton Metalplane.
• Sonex Aircraft, Oshkosh 1998 − present, produces homebuilt designs and kits. Manafacutres the Sonex series of lightweight aircraft.

• DeltaHawk Engines, Inc. in Racine, Wisconsin, develops heavy fuel light aircraft engines.
• United Gear and Assembly Inc, is headquartered in Hudson. Producer of airspeed gauges.
• Velicon, Milwaukee-based, manufactures electric motors and generators for aerospace testing.

• List of airports in Wisconsin

• Wisconsin has 8 airports which offer regular commercial airline service
• Air Wisconsin, 1965 – present. Based in Greenville. Operates as a regional airline flying for American Airlines under the name American Eagle.{{cite web|title=Air Wisconsin |url=http://www.airwis.com/au_history.htm?linkSrc=2 |access-date=March 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807030219/http://www.airwis.com/au_history.htm?linkSrc=2 |archive-date=August 7, 2011 }}
• Kohler Aviation, 1929–1934. Operated Loening C-2 amphibious aircraft between Milwaukee and Grand Rapids, Michigan.{{cite book|title=Airlines and air mail: the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation|url=https://archive.org/details/airlinesairmailp00frob|url-access=registration|author=F. Robert Van der Linden|year=2002|publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=9780813122199}}

• Richard Bong, highest-scoring air ace during WWII, was born in Superior.
• Klapmeier brothers, founders of Cirrus Aircraft, started their careers in Baraboo.
• Billy Mitchell, a major general who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force, grew up in West Allis.
• Paul Poberezny, founder of the EAA and the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow, lived in Hales Corners and Oshkosh.
• Tom Poberezny, former aerobatic world champion and president of the EAA, lived in Hales Corners and Oshkosh.
• Robert Campbell Reeve, founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways, was born in Waunakee.
• Deke Slayton, USAF pilot and one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, was born in Sparta.

• Experimental Aircraft Association – is headquartered in Oshkosh.
• Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.aviationhalloffamewisconsin.com/ |title=Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame |access-date=March 30, 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404194517/http://www.aviationhalloffamewisconsin.com/ |archive-date=April 4, 2011 }}

• All flight operations in Wisconsin are conducted within FAA oversight.
• The Wisconsin Department of Transportation manages taxes and state regulations for Wisconsin.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/modes/air.htm#general|title = Wisconsin Department of Transportation Travel by air}}
• The Wisconsin Air National Guard includes the 115th Fighter Wing, based out of Dane County Regional Airport.
• The Wisconsin State Patrol operates 4 Cessna 172 aircraft.{{cite web|title=Wisconsin State Patrol |url=http://www.dot.state.wi.us/statepatrol/enforcement/aircraft-program.htm |access-date=March 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103074715/http://www.dot.state.wi.us/statepatrol/enforcement/aircraft-program.htm |archive-date=January 3, 2011 }}
• The Law Enforcement Aviation Coalition, Inc. is a multi-state law enforcement equipment sharing service that has a Bell OH-58 Kiowa operating at a base in Kenosha

• EAA Aviation Museum Oshkosh.{{Cite web |url=http://museum.eaa.org/ |title=EAA Airventure Museum |access-date=March 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426192156/http://museum.eaa.org/ |archive-date=April 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
• Fortaleza Hall, Racine, Wisconsin. A Frank Lloyd Wright style building housing the SC Johnson Sikorsky S-38 The Spirit of Carnauba.{{cite news |title=SC Johnson unveils new architectural showpiece |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=January 24, 2010 |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-scjohnson-newbuil,0,7849644.story |access-date=January 25, 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite news|title=Meeting Mr. Wright: Norman Foster's new Fortaleza Hall at S.C. Johnson & Son converses winningly with the old master|author=Blair Kamin|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=January 27, 2010|url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2010/01/racine------confronting-frank-lloyd-wrights-legacy-is-not-an-exercise-for-the-architecturally-faint-of-heart-and-wrights-out.html|access-date=January 29, 2011|quote=In 1935, Herbert F. Johnson, then the company's president, flew the original model of the S-38 from Racine to the Brazilian city of Fortaleza in search of a lasting source of wax from the carnauba palm tree.|archive-date=February 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202025350/http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2010/01/racine------confronting-frank-lloyd-wrights-legacy-is-not-an-exercise-for-the-architecturally-faint-of-heart-and-wrights-out.html|url-status=dead}}
• Mitchell Gallery of Flight at the General Mitchell International Airport
• Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin
• Aviation Heritage Center of Wisconsin in Sheboygan Falls[http://www.ahcw.org/ Aviation Heritage Center of Wisconsin]

File:Inside of Gallery of Flight.jpg|Mitchell Gallery of Flight

File:EAAAirAdventureMuseum.jpg|EAA museum and headquarters

File:OSH-2011.jpg|EAA airshow grounds from the air in 2011

File:Bong Heritage Center (2).JPG|Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center

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