We captured a rare Piaggio Royal Gull amphibian on landing and taxi during at the Oshkosh seabase this year.

Here are a few pictures from the CH-701’s flight home from Oshkosh AirVenture 2008. Weather was amazingly clear for summer.

Call weather on Thursday provided a great day for flying action. We took our CH-701 out for an hour of landings and takeoffs ourselves. The forecast for the rest of the show looks favorable for continued calm-water operations.

We’ve posted the first of many photos from Tuesday. As we get time to upload ones from our other cameras we’ll add more. We also have some video of the Albatross, Cessna Caravan, and Piaggio in action we’ll be posting after the show when we have our hi-speed internet connection back.

Yesterday has a day for flying boats with the arrival of an Grumman Albatross, the Piaggio twin pusher seaplane, and the new SeaMax experimental.

The 1st day of Oshkosh was fairly quiet. A good north breese kept casual seaplane flying to a minimum until mid-afternoon. Following the airshow, we repositioned our Zenair CH-701 Amphibian from Whitman Field to the Seaplane Base where it will stay for the week.

We’ll try and update photos daily through the week.

My dad pointed me to a very nice AirVenture photo essay posted at http://silvairehair2.home.comcast.net/072806/. Some very nice aerial imagery from their trip and around the grounds at Oshkosh AirVenture 2006.

We put together a quick look at our photos from our AirVenture trip last week today. It was a great week despite hot tempertures. Highlights included fly-bys by the F-22 Raptor and Navy Blue Angels, the arrival of a Brittish Lancaster Bomber, and a wonderful stay out at the Oshkosh Seaplane Base.

Look for more detailed articles about our various Oshkosh adventures in the coming weeks as we have time to go through our notes and photos.

We got our 1st full day at AirVenture today. The 1st suprise was finding a picture of our Zenair CH-701 in the current issue of Sport Pilot magazine. It is a nice picture taken during lasts year’s Oshkosh with Sarah and Larry out for a ride.

One of the earliest CH-701 amphibians is parked in the homebuilt section this year. N701SR has a distinctive sunset paint scheme and sports a Continental O-200 engine. This CH-701 was completed prior to having the Rotax 912 series as a viable engine option.

One of only two flying Brittish Lanchaster bombers from WWII arrived just prior to the airshow.

The airshow was interupted by a 15 minute downpour which sent much of the crowd running for cover.

We spent the evening back at the seaplane base taking pictures of the action. Tomorrow we’re off for an early morning photo walk with the Canon EOS promotional team followed by another full day of airplanes and those that love them. We’ll get pictures posted to the gallery as soon as possible.

We’re looking forward to another great Oshkosh Airventure this year.  Weather permitting, we’ll have our Zenair CH-701 amphibian at the AirVenture Seaplane Base.  Anyone planning to fly into Oshkosh should get a copy of the current year NOTAM and read it carefully.  General information about the show, lodging, and schedule is available at www.AirVenture.org.

Hope to see you there! And check back here at PlanePlaces.com for full coverage after the show.

Please enjoy our pictures from last years EAA Oshkosh fly-in. We plan to be at Airventure again this year so look forward to another set soon. CLick on the image below to go to the gallery.