First AOPA President Dies

Edited by David Rimmer April 01, 2002
Joseph B. (Doc) Hartranft, Jr., 86, the first president of the AOPA, died Feb. 22 in Annapolis, Md. Hartranft was one of six founders of the AOPA in Philadelphia in 1939, a time when ``the military's concerns about impending world war threatened the freedom of civilian aviation,'' according to AOPA...

Subscription Required

 

This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.

Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.

Already an AWIN subscriber? Login

 

Did you know?  Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.