EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019: Airshows-Saturday Night Airshow, Part 5

The Aero Experience continues our coverage of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019, sponsored by Elite Aviation, with our final series featuring airshow performers. The Saturday night airshow is a seminal event, highlighting the final weekend of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in grand style. The Saturday night airshow is a combination of high drama, colorful skies and patriotic entertainment that melds tens of thousands of people into one family. The atmosphere of comradery, emotional engagement and sensory overload experienced during the night airshow is the high point of the nation's largest aviation event.

Some of the performers featured during our previous coverage of the daily airshows will be included in the night airshow coverage. Here we feature the legendary Gene Soucy flying the Showcat.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019: Airshows - Gene Soucy

The Aero Experience continues our year-long coverage of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019, sponsored by Elite Aviation, with this look at airshow performer Gene Soucy. Soucy is a legend in aerobatics, having joined the U.S. Aerobatic Team at age 22, assisting the team in winning its first World Title. He became three-time U.S. and Canadian National Champion, and began his airshow career in 1968. Soucy flew Pitts S-1S, BD-4, Bellanca Decathlon, Piper Cub and Cessna 150 before the current Showcat (modified Grumman Ag-Cat) and Extra 300S. He has flown with the Red Devil and Eagle Aerobatic Teams and has flown in many movie scenes as well. Here are some views of Gene Soucy as he flew in the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 Monday airshow.