AOPA Pilot Magazine - May 2014 - 100

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AOPA was fortunate to have been
founded by a group of Philadelphia lawyers
and industrialists who were as committed to flying as they were to defending GA
interests. By early 1939, it was clear that
airline and military aviation lobbyists
were winning out over private-airplane
interests. AOPA's six founders knew that
general aviation needed a single, strong
voice to ensure its future. Consequently,
AOPA put a high priority on political work
from day one. In this it was alone among
other organizations purporting to represent general aviation interests.
So what would general aviation be like
without AOPA's influence?
AOPA's first success came with the passage of the Civilian Pilot Training Program
(CPTP)-a federal program that let thousands of new pilots earn their wings with
help of a subsidy. These pilots would later
serve in World War II, and continue flying-in general aviation airplanes-long
after the war. AOPA secured passage of
the Senate bill clinching the CPTP by the
painstaking art of Congressional persuasion and consensus-building. It's work that

takes time, patience, and tactful behindthe-scenes arm-bending. And it continues
to this day. Without the CPTP effort,
general aviation wouldn't have registered
on the federal government's radar. And a
generation's worth of pilots never would
have begun.
In the prewar days other initiatives broke new ground. AOPA began to

BACK IN THE LATE 1940S, radio communica-

tions were not nearly as mandatory as
they are in today's complicated airspace.
When the government tried to force
general aviation pilots into purchasing
the heavy, tube-laden radios of the day,
AOPA attempted to impart some
common sense into the debate. The
cartoon makes the point-although today
it seems ultra-reactionary in view of more
modern communications requirements.

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