2016 Airventure Cup Race Photos
Get a look at all the great shots from our 19th Annual Airventure Cup Race 2016. Click button below to go to the album.
Official 2016 Airventure Cup Race Program Guide Now Online
Click below for the digital 2016 AVC Program guide filled with racer profiles and more. Enjoy!
2016 Official Race Results (UPDATED)
(UPDATED AS OF 12/16/2016) Official race results from this years AVC Race. (Sport SX time(s) have been audited and edited to reflect new times. Change did not impact placement positions.) Airventure Cup Race once again proved successful, safe, and fun and has set the stage and raised the bar for next years 20th anniversary. This…
Updated Schedule of Events 2016 AVC
Airventure Cup Is only a few days out and we’re excited to see everyone in Mitchell, SD. Lots has been happening and as usual there are slight changes from time to time in our daily schedules. Please click on the below link for the latest Schedule of Events and print out to have an extra…
A Race To Education
By William E. Dubois, Race 53 In the words of the younger set, my son Rio was “totally grossed out.” We could hear the whine of the radial engines. See the distant smoke. Catch a flash of the setting sun off of the windscreens of the cartwheeling planes. But we were totally missing the Tora,…
A Hand for your Volunteers
Like all great EAA events, the AirVenture Cup is brought to you by volunteers. Born of an idea hatched in Camp Sholler during the 1997 convention by lifelong EAA Volunteers, Eric Whyte and Erik Anderson, the first AirVenture Cup was in 1998. Since then more than one hundred volunteers have established a tradition of bringing…
A Whiff of Jet-A
Amid the hustle and bustle of the Mount Vernon Airport ramp at the start of the AirVenture Cup last year, one could be forgiven for overlooking an especially nice RV-8 or a particularly tricked out Lancair. There was one plane in the crowd, however, that practically (and literally!) screamed for attention. The first sign for…
Pruitt Brothers
Over its first eighteen years of running, the AirVenture Cup Cross-Country Air Race has seen many rare and interesting aircraft, many family racing teams, many successful rookie campaigns, and many breathtakingly close “photo finishes.” It’s hard to say, however, if the AVC has ever seen all these elements combined in quite the way we saw…
EAA AirVenture Cup Race Accepting Applications for 2016 Race
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Milwaukee, WI – March 1, 2016 – Applications for participation in the 2016 EAA AirVenture Cup Race are now available online at www.airventurecuprace.com. Pilots interested in participating in this year’s annual event may begin the application process through the newly designed website. The 19th running of the AirVenture Cup Cross-Country…
Early 2016 Registration for Last Year Racers
ATTENTION 2015 AVC RACERS: To assist in making the 2016 race registration process more manageable for both racer and AVC staff, we’re using a new registration system and opening registration early to last year’s racers. Last year racers have the opportunity to “early register” giving EAA a head-start on application approvals. If you raced with us…