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Brodhead Airport

EAA Chapter 431

Brodhead, WI 53520

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Specializing in scenic biplane rides and aerobatic flights. Contact us to reserve a flight, see our schedule on our website, or hire us to fly rides at your festival or private party/event. Looking for something fun and unique to do in the southern Wisconsin area? Let us take you back in time in our authentic open-cockpit biplane. Framed between its wings is the opportunity of a lifetime to fly the original way, with the sun on your face and the wind in your hair. With your pilot behind you, the sky is yours! We fly out of our home airport in Brodhead, WI most often but fly to many events and festivals throughout the flying season and can arrive with dramatic fly-overs at your private wedding, party, or event. Our 1930 Waco Taperwing makes an incredible backdrop for your photos and memorable vintage airplane rides for your guests. A great experience for celebrating special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays - with gift certificates available in any amount. …

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Gypsy Air Tours - Biplane Rides and Scenic Tours

Step back in time and hold on to your seat as you fly the skies of Lake Geneva in a vintage 1930 WACO Taperwing Bi-plane. There is nothing quite as exhilarating as a ride in an open cockpit biplane. The 1930 WACO Taperwing comfortably seats two passengers in the front while the pilot sits behind. Thrill ride or pleasure ride (your choice), their pilots guarantee a wide smile and a smooth landing.

Gypsy Air Tours have predetermined stops at airports throughout the Midwest and make frequent stops in the Lake Geneva area at the Burlington Airport, East Troy Airport, and Bigfoot Airfield. Flights start at $90 per person. Please check the flight schedule on their website or call for more information. 

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No pilot truly flies alone. We're lucky to work closely with several wonderful local aviation organizations!

EAA CHapter 431

Chapter 431 of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is located right next door to us at Kelch, here on Brodhead Airport. A thriving local aviation hub, Chapter 431 hosts many annual events and projects. Learn more today!

Brodhead Airport

The Brodhead Airport, located in beautiful rural southern Wisconsin, is the Midwest's epicenter for vintage aviation. With more than 70 years of rich aviation history, three classic grass runways, and a flourishing community of expert aviators, folks come from worldwide to visit this magical, tiny airport.

Gypsy Air Tours

Based on the Brodhead Airport, Gypsy Air Tours offers stunning biplane rides - the most magical way to truly experience flight!

Brodhead Pietenpol Association

The BPA, based next door on the Brodhead Airport, celebrates the Pietenpol homebuilt airplane through history, building projects, and a world-renowned annual fly-in.

Sponsors and donors

We're so grateful for our aviation family:.

Rudy's love of aviation and learning lives on, thanks to his sponsorship of our archive & library.

The William S. Knight Foundation

The William S. Knight Foundation has been a major partner in museum funding; In fact, our main hangar is named, "The Bill & Sue Knight Memorial Vintage Aircraft and Auto Hangar" in their honor.

The Brodhead Area Foundation

Led by a community-based board of directors, the Brodhead Area Foundation Inc. supports local organizations.

Kent & Sandra Joranlien

Kent was a charter member of EAA Chapter 431, located next door to us on Brodhead Airport. He and Sandra were early supporters of our museum, and our Phase II building will be named, "The Kent E. Joranlien Memorial Fellowship Hall" to honor his legacy.

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• Jul 27, 2023

Junior Birdmen - Biplane Flights

I learned the Junior Birdmen song in junior high, seems appropriate enough.

Up in the air Junior Birdmen

Up in the air upside down

Keep your noses off the ground

With my fingers formed in a circle and held upside down over my eyes, picturing myself as Snoopy hunting down the Red Baron, my 12-year-old self never imagined I would someday fly in a nearly 100-year-old biplane.

Yet there I was last week on a grass airstrip outside the small town of Broadhead, Wisconsin, climbing aboard a 1930 Waco Taperwing .

You can do it too.

Flights are conducted by Gypsy Air Tours , the husband and wife team of Josh and Kerryann Brownell.

They offer 20-, 30- and even 45-minute flights. A nice thing about it is the biplane seat is just big enough for two people and the price is the same whether you are doing it solo or with a partner.

You have to do it.

Admittedly, I have a bit of a daredevil spirit. I’ve done the tandem skydiving thing and taken photos out of a helicopter with the doors removed.

P.S. The helicopter was the same one used in an episode of Hawaii Five-O as both the police chopper and the bad guys’ copter. They painted it between shots.

Anyway, having said that, aside from people who maybe have a severe fear of heights or, naturally, fear of flying, I really think most everyone would enjoy the biplane ride.

Josh, who serves as the pilot, mentioned it being a bit of a rollercoaster ride, but I’d actually put it a notch lower on the thrill scale.

We were constantly swaying from side to side. Partly because that’s just the way it is and partly because it was a pretty windy day.

There were 90 degree turns where I was looking straight up into the clouds on one side and directly down to the land below on the other, a swoop to the ground that reminded me of a crop duster flying low to spray the fields, and a couple of times where I was lifted a little off my seat.

I’d been ok with a barrel roll or loop-to-loop but, understandably, that’s not something they are going to do with inexperienced passengers. Insurance and all that, ya’ know.

By the way, Josh does tell you to signal him if you’re feeling a little queasy or give him the ol’ thumbs up if you’re having fun.

The cockpits are entirely open. The passenger cockpit is located in front of the pilot’s, so you’re right between the wings, behind the propellor, with nothing between you and the sky in front of you except for a small windshield.

(It might be hard to tell, but a lot of this video is when we are making turns and at, or near, 90 degrees.)

You’re allowed to take photos with your phone or camera. Just be careful. As I found out, if you lift your hands above or off to the side of that windshield, the wind will take them back very quickly.

It only makes sense. Imagine driving down the interstate at 80 miles an hour or more and sticking your hand out the window. Same result.

I definitely gave Josh the thumbs up during my flight and give the entire experience two thumbs up.

You can schedule a flight through their website. One note, both Josh and Kerryann have “day jobs” so they don’t schedule especially far in advance.

Your best bet is to be flexible. Send them an email through the form on their website and don’t panic if you don’t hear back from them right away. That just means they haven’t gotten the next flight dates set quite yet.

Kelch Aviation Museum

The small airport they fly out of also houses the Kelch Aviation Museum . The museum is a fun walk back into aviation history and is entirely free of charge.

The museum features 19 vintage airplanes, mostly from the 1920s and 30s. They even have a plane engine there with possible ties back to Charles Lindbergh.

Car enthusiasts will enjoy looking at antique cars included in the collection, also dating back to the 30s.

Many of the pieces belonged to Alfred & Lois Kelch, with others on loan from museums and private collectors.

Kelch was a successful businessman whose injection molding company made traffic cones, plastic flashlights, those orange life buoy things you see the lifeguards using on Baywatch when they jump into the waves to save people in distress, and even toy replicas of the Big Boy Restaurant boy.

The Kelch’s created a trust, along with funding, for their plane and memorabilia collection in 2004 with the museum officially opening in 2012. The museum is becoming a great attraction for Brodhead and is currently expanding its space.

Monroe Sidetrip

One additional sidenote, if you’re looking for other places to go and things to do in that area, Monroe is just 15 miles straight west of Brodhead. It’s a small town with lots of character and things to do.

Stop in at the National Historic Cheesemaking Center and you might even meet the mayor. She volunteers at the front desk.

She has quite the story to tell. She’s in her 80s and is the town’s first female mayor .

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