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Associated Press - November 21, 2009 11:05 AM ET
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - 1 of the pilots from the US Airways "splashdown" flight in the Hudson River in New York will attend an Experimental Aircraft Association's banquet next month.
Pilot Jeff Skiles will speak at the annual Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet, which commemorates the 106th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
Skiles started with US Airways in 1986. The Oregon, Wis., resident started attending the EAA fly-in convention, AirVenture, with his parents in the 1960s.
Skiles and Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed the passenger plane in the Hudson River last January.
The pair are also co-chairmen of EAA's Young Eagles youth aviation education program.
The banquet is Dec. 18 in the EAA AirVenture Museum's Eagle Hangar in Oshkosh.
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