Citing challenges facing general aviation, Craig Fuller, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, unveiled Monday a $1.5 million advertising and promotion campaign to gain public support to keep government from imposing devastating user fees, airport limitations, and other restrictions on air transportation that serves America. The program includes radio, television, on-line and print […]
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Rudinger named assistant to AOPA president
Melissa Rudinger has been named vice president and assistant to Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association President Craig Fuller. Rudinger has worked for AOPA for more than 18 years, spending most of that time in the Government Affairs Division, where she was most recently the vice president of regulatory affairs, overseeing a staff that dealt with […]
Landsberg named ASF president
AOPA Air Safety Foundation Executive Director Bruce Landsberg was named president of the foundation. “During his time at the Air Safety Foundation, Bruce has shown tremendous capability to develop industry-leading safety training programs and to raise the money necessary to provide those programs free of charge to all pilots,” said Craig Fuller, AOPA president. “His […]
AOPA aims 2009 Sweepstakes at pilots…and non-pilots
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is heading in a completely new direction with its 2009 Let’s Go Flying! sweepstakes. For the past 18 years, the AOPA Sweepstakes has showcased what you can do to an airplane, as the Association bought and completely refurbished a used aircraft before awarding the end result to the sweepstakes […]
‘Temporary’ Washington ADIZ to be permanent
The Federal Aviation Administration has released the final version of a rule making the Washington, D.C., Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) – the only such zone within the borders of the United States – a permanent fixture in American airspace. The change comes despite congressional inquiries, negative economic studies, more than 22,000 written comments from […]