Victor Bird Receives Hartranft Award - State Aviation Journal

Victor Bird, Director of the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission, on Saturday, received AOPA’s highest honor for government officials. Each year the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association presents the Joseph B. "Doc" Hartranft Jr. Award to a federal, state, local or foreign government official who has made significant contributions to the advancement of general aviation.

This year’s award was made during a special awards program at AOPA Aviation Summit in Long Beach, Calif.
Bird served as chairman of the National Association of State Aviation Officials, is a member of the Governor’s Council for Workforce and Economic Development, and is on the aviation advisory boards for both Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma.

The Joseph B. “Doc” Hartranft Jr. Award is named for AOPA’s first employee, longtime president and former chairman of the board.
Bird will be featured in the next issue of the State Aviation Journal due out in December.

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Kim Stevens is the publisher of State Aviation Journal, which he founded in 2009. A longtime commercial-rated pilot, he was introduced to state aviation in 1992 as Director of the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics, later serving as Deputy Division Director for the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division. From 2013 to 2018, he was Director of Communications and Operations for the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in Washington, D.C. Relocating to North Carolina, Kim worked for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport for two years and now concentrates solely on the Journal. Prior to his aviation career, Kim spent a decade in the newspaper and magazine business.