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Back from AirVenture

Posted on August 2, 2012 by william

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AirVenture was fantastic!

In the War Birds area with some of the World War II ladies.

Posted in Aviation | Tagged airventure, aviation, eaa, experimental aircraft association, oshkosh | 1 Reply

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