AOPA
Ukraine is once again helping to organise the music, biking and aviation
festival in Ushgorod this summer, and all AOPA members are cordially invited.
The festival, which was a great success last year, attractive pilots from all
over Europe, is jointly run by Gennadi Khasan, President of AOPA Ukraine, and
Alexander Suchanov, President of the International Biker Club Padonki. An
account of last year’s event, published in the AOPA UK magazine General
Aviation, is available in PDF form here
– download the file ‘Pages 32-26 East to the Steppes’. More details of this
year’s programme will be available from the middle of April on the AOPA Ukraine
website (www.aopa.ua). At that time
registration for the pilots and crew members will start.
One
of Belgium’s oldest airfields, Spa La Sauveniere, has been closed following a
campaign by Greens and a local mineral water company. AOPA members are asked to
consider signing a petition which seeks its reopening.
Following an order issued
by the Belgian regional Transport Minister Philippe Henry, the historic
airfield of Spa (EBSP) was shut down on February 21st after more of 100 years
serving as a GA airfield. The decision means the destruction of more than 40 jobs
at the airfield, with hundreds of pilots [Read
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