AOPA Expands Fly-in Events for 2017

AOPA’s popular Regional Fly-ins add an extra day of activities for their 2017 events.

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Key Takeaways:

  • AOPA Regional Fly-ins are expanding from one-day to two-day events after two successful years, still holding four events annually.
  • The expanded format aims to offer more activities, workshops, and learning opportunities focused on making flying safer, affordable, fun, and accessible.
  • The popular events will begin April 28-29 in Camarillo, CA, with subsequent fly-ins scheduled for Norman, OK, Groton, CT, and Tampa, FL.
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After two successful years of one-day AOPA Regional Fly-ins, the organization has decided to expand them. There will still be four fly-ins, beginning April 28-29 in Camarillo, CA, but this year each event will be a two-day affair.

Courtesy of AOPA
Courtesy of AOPA

AOPA plans to add more activities, workshops, and learning opportunities for attendees. Workshops will be held on a wide range of topics including mountain flying, owner-performed maintenance, and overwater flying. The focus of the programming is to make flying safer, affordable, more fun, and more accessible to everyone with an interest in the aviation community.

AOPA says that the fly-ins have been popular since their inception—in three years more than 40,000 attendees and 6,000 aircraft have shown up for the events and they have just continued to grow. Presumably, the idea is to give the people even more of what they want.

After the April event in California held at KCMA, Norman, OK (KOUN) will host the next fly-in September 8-9 followed by Groton, CT (KGON — October 6-7), and Tampa, FL (KTPF — October 27-28).

Learn more at AOPA.

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