{"id":28617787,"date":"2026-10-18T21:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/eaa-aviation-museum-oshkosh-six-new-aircraft-seattle-ii-pby-catalina-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:23:16","slug":"eaa-aviation-museum-oshkosh-six-new-aircraft-seattle-ii-pby-catalina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/eaa-aviation-museum-oshkosh-six-new-aircraft-seattle-ii-pby-catalina-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"EAA Aviation Museum Adds Six Aircraft, From Seattle II to a PBY"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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A homebuilt biplane that took one Washington State couple more than a decade. A powered hang glider that lifted off a frozen Wisconsin lake in 1975 and started a movement. They now share a roof in Oshkosh.<\/p>\r\n<p>The EAA Aviation Museum has added six aircraft to its displays, the Experimental Aircraft Association announced this week. The list runs from a replica of a 1912 Georgia monoplane to two Second World War fighters, and every one of them comes with a story that fits EAA's world of builders, restorers and dreamers.<\/p>\r\n<p>Three are replicas or rebuilt homebuilts, two are warbirds on loan from the Frasca Collection, and the sixth is a Catalina with three U-boat kills to its name.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Museum:<\/strong> EAA Aviation Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Announced:<\/strong> 15 October 2026 (EAA release)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Replicas:<\/strong> Douglas World Cruiser &ldquo;Seattle II&rdquo; and Epps Monoplane (1912 design)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Ultralight:<\/strong> John Moody's Icarus II, first flown 15 March 1975<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Warbirds on loan:<\/strong> Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and General Motors-built FM-2 Wildcat, from the Frasca Collection<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Flying boat:<\/strong> PBY-5A Catalina BuNo 2459, from the American Heritage Museum and Collings Foundation<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;The opportunity to be able to feature these marvelous aircraft as a part of our displays adds new stories to our already expansive collection. It is a testament to how whether you are a homebuilder, a restorer, or amateur aviator who dreams of flight, you have a true community at EAA.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Chris Henry<\/strong> &mdash; EAA Aviation Museum director, EAA release, October 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Seattle II: a homebuilt that flies around the world in spirit<\/h2>\r\n<p>The biggest homebuilt in the group is Robert Dempster's full-scale replica of the Douglas World Cruiser, the type that made the first aerial circumnavigation in 1924. EAA describes it as Dempster's first homebuilt project and says he spent 20 years recreating it; Vintage Aviation News dates the construction itself to 2001 to 2014. Named Seattle II and registered N511WC, it honours the original Seattle, the lead aircraft that crashed in Alaska early in that flight.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is no static model. According to Vintage Aviation News, the replica is powered by an original Liberty V-12 built in 1918 and made its first test hop in December 2014, with its first official flight at Arlington, Washington, in May 2015. The Museum of Flight described it at the time as the world's only flying Douglas World Cruiser replica. After starring in the Vintage area at AirVenture 2026, it is on loan to the museum for at least a year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hc6PEZLSkCo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">EAA's preview of the Seattle II World Cruiser replica ahead of its AirVenture 2026 appearance.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two homebuilt pioneers: Epps and Moody<\/h2>\r\n<p>The Epps Monoplane replica recreates the 1912 design of Ben T. Epps, a self-taught mechanic who became Georgia's first aviator. EAA says the original combined scrap timber, cotton covering, bicycle wheels and a low-horsepower engine into an open-cockpit, wire-braced, mid-wing monoplane. Afterburner is publishing a separate story on Epps today.<\/p>\r\n<p>John Moody, considered the father of ultralight aviation, first flew his Icarus II from a frozen lake at Long Lake, Wisconsin, on 15 March 1975, EAA says. The engine-powered biplane hang glider helped spark the recreational ultralight movement that eventually led to the FAA's Part 103 rules. Moody kept it in his garage rafters for decades before the Michigan Ultralight Association rebuilt it for donation to EAA. His full story also gets its own Afterburner feature today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/eaa-carus-ii-created-by-john-moody-1.jpg\" alt=\"John Moody's Icarus II biplane hang glider hanging in the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">John Moody's Icarus II, the white biplane hang glider in the foreground, now hangs among the homebuilts of the EAA Aviation Museum. Photo: EAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Warhawk and a Wildcat from the Frasca Collection<\/h2>\r\n<p>Two Second World War fighters arrive on loan from the Frasca Collection. The first is a <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-40-warhawk\/\">Curtiss P-40 Warhawk<\/a>, wearing the shark-mouth nose art that made the type famous. EAA credits the P-40 with enabling more than 200 Allied pilots to become aces in the first part of the war.<\/p>\r\n<p>The second is a <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f4f-wildcat\/\">Grumman F4F Wildcat<\/a> in its FM-2 form, licence-built by General Motors. EAA says the Wildcat compensated for its lack of speed and agility with build quality, armour, firepower and dive speed, and credits it with a seven-to-one win-loss ratio in the Pacific.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/eaa-frasca-curtiss-p-40-warhawk.jpg\" alt=\"Shark-mouthed Curtiss P-40 Warhawk on loan from the Frasca Collection on display in the EAA Aviation Museum\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Frasca Collection's P-40 Warhawk, shark mouth and all, on the museum floor in Oshkosh. Photo: EAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">PBY-5A 2459: the Catalina that sank three U-boats<\/h2>\r\n<p>The headline arrival is the American Heritage Museum's <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/pby-catalina\/\">PBY-5A Catalina<\/a>, Navy Bureau Number 2459, on loan with the Collings Foundation. According to EAA, this aircraft and its crews were responsible for three confirmed U-boat sinkings and severely damaged a fourth. Vintage Aviation News reports it flew with <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-naval-aviation\/\">US Navy<\/a> patrol squadron VP-73 from Iceland and was credited with sinking U-464, U-582 and U-194.<\/p>\r\n<p>After the war it became a civilian water bomber in Canada, then spent years with a Dutch preservation group before the American Heritage Museum acquired it in 2019. A restoration of about seven years returned it to its 20 August 1942 configuration, the day its crew sank U-464. It flew again on 6 July 2026 and was named World War II Grand Champion at AirVenture 2026, before moving into the museum's Eagle Hangar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/pby-5a-catalina-2459-ph-pby-leeuwarden-2016.jpg\" alt=\"PBY-5A Catalina BuNo 2459 flying as PH-PBY in Dutch navy markings in 2016\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The same airframe a decade earlier: BuNo 2459 flying in Royal Netherlands Navy markings with its Dutch owners at Leeuwarden in 2016, before its US restoration. Photo: Rob Schleiffert \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The Catalina was also a lifesaver. As EAA notes, the amphibian could land on the water next to a downed pilot, which made it a key search-and-rescue aircraft as well as a submarine hunter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ah8xjZD322E\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">The American Heritage Museum tells the wartime and restoration story of PBY-5A BuNo 2459.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Six stories under one roof<\/h2>\r\n<p>Taken together, the six aircraft read like a summary of what EAA stands for. Some were built by individuals with more patience than money, one was rebuilt by a club of volunteers, and three are combat veterans or their sisters kept alive by collectors.<\/p>\r\n<p>For visitors heading to Oshkosh outside AirVenture week, there is now a replica 1912 monoplane, a 1924 world-flight replica, the first popular ultralight and a U-boat killer all within a short walk. Not a bad afternoon.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: EAA, Vintage Aviation News, Aero-News Network, EAA Hangar Flying, The Museum of Flight, American Heritage Museum<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Which six aircraft did the EAA Aviation Museum add in October 2026?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh added a Douglas World Cruiser replica, an Epps Monoplane replica, John Moody's Icarus II ultralight, a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and an FM-2 Wildcat on loan from the Frasca Collection, and a PBY-5A Catalina on loan from the American Heritage Museum and Collings Foundation.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the Seattle II Douglas World Cruiser replica?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Seattle II, registered N511WC, is Robert Dempster's full-scale flying replica of the 1924 Douglas World Cruiser. EAA says it was his first homebuilt and took 20 years; Vintage Aviation News dates construction to 2001 to 2014. It is powered by an original 1918 Liberty V-12 and first flew in December 2014, according to Vintage Aviation News.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many U-boats did the American Heritage Museum PBY Catalina sink?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">According to EAA, PBY-5A Catalina BuNo 2459 and its crews were responsible for three confirmed U-boat sinkings and severely damaged another. Vintage Aviation News reports it flew with US Navy squadron VP-73 from Iceland and was credited with sinking U-464, U-582 and U-194.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When did John Moody first fly the Icarus II?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">John Moody first flew his Icarus II from a frozen lake at Long Lake, Wisconsin, on 15 March 1975, according to EAA. Moody is considered the father of ultralight aviation. The Michigan Ultralight Association rebuilt the aircraft for donation to EAA, and it now hangs in the EAA Aviation Museum.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who was Ben T. Epps?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Ben T. Epps was a self-taught mechanic who became Georgia's first aviator. The EAA Aviation Museum's Epps Monoplane replica recreates his 1912 design, which combined scrap timber, cotton covering, bicycle wheels and a low-horsepower engine in an open-cockpit, wire-braced, mid-wing monoplane.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where do the EAA museum's P-40 Warhawk and FM-2 Wildcat come from?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and the FM-2 Wildcat, a General Motors-built version of the Grumman F4F, are on loan to the EAA Aviation Museum from the Frasca Collection. 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