AOPA Pilot Celebrates Milestones

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Key Takeaways:

  • AOPA Pilot magazine reached its 600th issue and celebrated its 50th anniversary with its March 2008 publication.
  • The March 2008 issue introduced the inaugural "Never Again" column and a new "This Month In Aviation" historical feature.
  • To mark the milestone, AOPA made the magazine's very first issue available online for readers to browse.
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AOPA’s monthly AOPA Pilot magazine has reached its 600th issue and, with its March 2008 issue, AOPA Pilot celebrates its 50th anniversary. The “largest-circulation aviation magazine in the world” is sent to all 415,000 AOPA members and marks the milestone in its March 2008 issue that includes “the very first ‘Never Again’ column.” The March issue also introduces a new “This Month In Aviation” feature that will recount significant historical aviation happenings that occurred that month in aviation’s history. AOPA has also this month made available online the very first issue of AOPA Pilot magazine. Readers can “flip through the pages, just as if they were holding an original copy in their hands.”

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