Overview
- AirVenture reported about 734,000 visitors for its seven-day run, exceeding the 2025 total of 704,000 and setting a new attendance record.
- Wittman Regional Airport logged 15,527 aircraft operations during the event window and more than 10,000 aircraft arrived across east-central Wisconsin, while the showplane count reached 2,851 with vintage aircraft the largest category.
- Roughly 6,000 volunteers logged nearly 300,000 hours, campgrounds held more than 13,600 sites for over 40,000 visitors, and commercial exhibitors reached a record 1,021.
- The EAA Aviation Foundation’s Gathering raised a record $2.85 million, the event drew visitors from 98 countries and 849 media representatives, and EAA reported more than 30 million social reach and 17.1 million video views.
- EAA has begun collecting feedback and planning AirVenture 2027 for July 26–August 1 with potential themes under consideration, including the 100th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 solo trans‑Atlantic flight.