Boyer To Retire As AOPA President At End Of 2008

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AVwebALERT AVweb Breaking News Alert -- June 30, 2008
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Boyer to Retire, Craig Fuller New AOPA President

AOPA'S BOYER RETIRING, NEW PRESIDENT CRAIG FULLER
(http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...9820 6-1.html)

AOPA President Phil Boyer, who's been hinting at retirement for
several years, announced today that he'll "get my life back" at the
end of this year after 18 years as president of AOPA. Replacing him
will be Craig Fuller, a former Washington heavyweight who is currently
executive vice president at the Washington PR firm of APCO Worldwide.
He came to Washington as President Ronald Reagan's assistant for
cabinet affairs and served as Vice President George H.W. Bush's chief
of staff. Fuller has been a pilot for 40 years and "is as comfortable
with fellow pilots and 'hangar talk' as he is facing a Congressional
committee," said AOPA Chairman William C. Trimble III.
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Click here to read Boyer's note to the press
(http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...820 6-1.html).
Fuller learned to fly at Buchanan Field in Concord, California, while
still in high school and flew with the UCLA flying club at Van Nuys
while earning a B.A. in political science. He has a Master's degree in
urban studies from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where business
travel in his early public affairs career fostered purchase of a
Cessna 172RG Cutlass based at Santa Monica. He now logs 200+ hours a
year in his Beech Bonanza A36.

He is a director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, active in The Aspen
Institute and a former trustee of The John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts and the George (H.W.) Bush Presidential Library
Foundation. He and wife Karen reside in Northern Virginia just outside
Washington, D.C.