16 November 2008
AOPA's Boyer to speak at first flight dinner in Dayton
Saturday, November 22, 2008 Categories: Aviation
heritage
Phil Boyer, president of the
Aircraft Owners and Pilots
Association (AOPA), is to be the featured
speaker for the first flight anniversary dinner
celebration Dec. 17, 2008, in Dayton, Ohio. The
event will mark the 105th anniversary of powered
flight first achieved by Daytonians Wilbur and
Orville Wright.
Hosted by Aviation Trail, Inc. and the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the event will take place in the National Museum of the United States Air Force on Springfield Pike. Tickets are available to the public.
Boyer’s speech, entitled the “Past, Present and Future of General Aviation,” will follow a Wright-family-style dinner and entertainment by the Air Force Band of Flight. The Hall of Fame will announce its class of 2009 enshrinees. Yours truly will have copies of The Dayton Air Show: A Photographic Celebration available for sale.
A reception begins at 6 p.m. in the Hall of Fame's Learning Center with dinner at 7 p.m. in the museum's Modern Flight Gallery. (The Learning Center adjoins the Modern Flight Gallery.)
Tickets for the flight anniversary event are $60 a person. Requests for reservations should arrive at ATI no later than Friday, Dec. 13. Mail your check to ATI, P.O. Box 633, Wright Brothers Branch, Dayton, OH 45409.
AOPA numbers 415,000 members, representing two-thirds of all certificated pilots in the United States. Its headquarters is in Frederick, Md. Boyer, who has been AOPA’s president since Jan.1, 1991--and whose tenure concludes at the end of this year--increased its membership during that time by 33 percent. He is an 8,500-hour-plus, instrument- and multiengine-rated pilot who has flown for more than 40 years--15 of those as an aircraft owner.
Aviation Trail was organized in 1981 as a non-profit group of aviation professionals and enthusiasts who seek to foster the local area’s aviation heritage. It is developing a Parachute Museum in its headquarters, West Third and South Williams streets. The modern parachute was invented and first tested at old McCook Field in Dayton.
The National Aviation Hall of Fame was founded in 1962 to honor individuals and organizations who have contributed uniquely to America’s rich legacy of aviation achievement. Its annual enshrinement ceremony, held in Dayton each July, has been dubbed the Oscar night of aviation.
Hosted by Aviation Trail, Inc. and the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the event will take place in the National Museum of the United States Air Force on Springfield Pike. Tickets are available to the public.
Boyer’s speech, entitled the “Past, Present and Future of General Aviation,” will follow a Wright-family-style dinner and entertainment by the Air Force Band of Flight. The Hall of Fame will announce its class of 2009 enshrinees. Yours truly will have copies of The Dayton Air Show: A Photographic Celebration available for sale.
A reception begins at 6 p.m. in the Hall of Fame's Learning Center with dinner at 7 p.m. in the museum's Modern Flight Gallery. (The Learning Center adjoins the Modern Flight Gallery.)
Tickets for the flight anniversary event are $60 a person. Requests for reservations should arrive at ATI no later than Friday, Dec. 13. Mail your check to ATI, P.O. Box 633, Wright Brothers Branch, Dayton, OH 45409.
AOPA numbers 415,000 members, representing two-thirds of all certificated pilots in the United States. Its headquarters is in Frederick, Md. Boyer, who has been AOPA’s president since Jan.1, 1991--and whose tenure concludes at the end of this year--increased its membership during that time by 33 percent. He is an 8,500-hour-plus, instrument- and multiengine-rated pilot who has flown for more than 40 years--15 of those as an aircraft owner.
Aviation Trail was organized in 1981 as a non-profit group of aviation professionals and enthusiasts who seek to foster the local area’s aviation heritage. It is developing a Parachute Museum in its headquarters, West Third and South Williams streets. The modern parachute was invented and first tested at old McCook Field in Dayton.
The National Aviation Hall of Fame was founded in 1962 to honor individuals and organizations who have contributed uniquely to America’s rich legacy of aviation achievement. Its annual enshrinement ceremony, held in Dayton each July, has been dubbed the Oscar night of aviation.
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