AOPA pilot: voice of general aviation
Production date
1964
Object detail
Accession number
03-777
Description
Published by the AOPA in Bethesda, Maryland. Focus on AOPA history and US civil aviation. Vol.7, no.5 (May 1964). 7 - look to the future 35 - AOPA: 25 years of growth 39 - AOPA chronology 43 - the first one thousand: roster of early members, still active, with AOPA numbers under 1000 54 - photo feature: this is AOPA today 60 - US civil aviatoin in 1939 62 - aviation best-sellers of 25 years ago 67 - 1939-1964: general aviation's growth era, private flying 70 - european general aviation on its way up 76 - birth of the piper cub 82 - from rockets to crop-dusters: Lloyd Stearman on the turbo-powered ag plane 88 - design and today's lightplanes: fred weick (ercoupe), clare bunch (monocoupe) 97 - the '$700 airplane' and the future: early CAA official tells of agency's serach for low-cost plane in the 1930s 101 - micracle in greenland: max conrad's rescue from desolate ice cap 106 - development of an airport: el paso international 111 - us complaints lodged against beech and piper 112 - turbochargers and lightplanes 116 - cadillacs in the sky: FAA's purchase of eight beechcraft Queen Air 80's
Media/Materials
Physical description
volume : illustrations ; 28 cm.
ISBN/ISSN
2469-6153
Other title
official magazine of the aircraft owners and pilots association
Credit line
1964. AOPA pilot: voice of general aviation, 03-777. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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