EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018: Gallery, Day One Busy With Late Arrivals

For years the first day of AirVenture has been Monday, and that works only because everyone attending spends the weekend prior traveling and gearing up for the show. Because of the low weather across much of the Midwest over the weekend, there were relatively few arrivals until Sunday mid-afternoon. But when planes did begin to arrive, they showed up in droves, and there were some interesting ones too. This is a special Oshkosh (as though they're not all remarkable in their own way). This year there are several big themes, including commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force and a celebration of military tankers. This goes along with the night airshows, the opening night concert and much more.

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An A-10 on rollout. The Warthog is one of the crowd favorites every year at OSH.

The most famous Cessna light twin, TV's famous Songbird, looking awful pretty all these years later.

A gaggle of Cubs arrived en masse over the weekend. Here, a ground marshall gives taxi directions to parking.

Honeywell's 757 was showing off the company's impressive array of connected services, from satellite phone to entertainment.

A scene of the crowded vintage parking area before the show even began in earnest.

A North American SN-J on its way in at KOSH after the weather cleared on Sunday.

Once the most popular kit at OSH by far, the Long EZ remains a fixture.

An impressive update of its Meridian turboprop single, the M600 won a Plane of the Year Award last year.

It's a weeklong celebration of the RAF's 100^th birthday. Here's a pretty P-84 trainer.

What can we say, but "it's shark week." A far from welcoming P-40.

Behind that eye-catching spinner is a ear-catching V-12 Merlin. The prettiest sound in the universe? It's right up there.

The most popular homebuilt at KOSH year after year? Well, the Van's RV-series, of course.

A P-51 in the warbird area on Sunday night.

Mustangs in the last rays of the day. Could anyone ever get tired of this? Not us!