AOPA gets new president

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.

Read Phil’s email to the press