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NEWS & NOTES

AOPA ACTION

CENTRAL SOUTHWEST REGION: Yasmina
Platt has been moving like a whirlwind
across her region. In early June, she traveled from her home base in Houston to
Iowa’s first ever PilotPalooza, held at the
Boone Municipal Airport. Platt took the
stage to talk about AOPA initiatives. Her
travels also took her to Albuquerque for a New Mexico
General Aviation Jobs Rally hosted by GAMA. Along
with AOPA President Craig Fuller, Platt joined a crowd
of GA supporters featuring Gov. Susana Martinez, U.S.
Senator Tom Udall, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry,
and GAMA President Pete Bunce. Earlier in the year,
she was in Santa Fe promoting a state tax exemption for
aircraft maintenance, and is already working towards
passage of similar legislation in next year’s session.
NORTHWEST MOUNTAIN REGION: Dave
Ulane played a key role in the creation
of the new Colorado General Aviation
Alliance, along with his predecessor
Bill Hamilton. This new organization
aims to bring together various aviation
groups within the state to facilitate collaboration on a wide range of GA-related issues and
initiatives in the state. At the top of its agenda is a
2014 legislative initiative to improve low level aviation
safety statewide by requiring the marking, lighting and
reporting of meteorological evaluation towers in the
state. Ulane spent a lot of time on legislative issues in
Washington and Oregon early in the year, and returned

to Oregon for the state Pilot Association’s annual convention in August, where he also hosted a gathering
for local ASN volunteers.
EASTERN REGION: AOPA’s newest
Regional Manager is Sean Collins. A
native of Maine, Collins spent several years at AOPA headquarters in
the Pilot Information Center before
heading to New England for his new
assignment. In Augusta, Maine, he
worked on legislation to extend the state’s exemption from sales and use taxes for aircraft and parts,
adopted two years ago. This exemption contained
an obscure provision for review in 2015. Thanks
to a concerted effort by AOPA and the Maine aviation industry, the exemption has been extended
to 2033. Collins visited a number of airports and
aviation events, including MAMA’s Massachusetts
Aviation Advocacy Day in Boston; AOPA’s Pilot
Town Hall at Hanscom Field; visits to Bridgewater
State University to see its Flight Training Center and
Aviation Career Education Camp; the Minuteman
Airfield BBQ in Stowe, Vermont; and the Wings over
Wiscasset airshow.
AOPA’S REGIONAL MANAGERS have become recognized figures in the aviation community in their areas
as well as effective advocates for the GA community.
For more information, visit the website (www.aopa.
org/advocacy).

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