{"id":461,"date":"2010-11-14T04:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-14T04:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:25:12","slug":"victor-bird-receives-hartranft-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/california\/victor-bird-receives-hartranft-award\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Victor Bird Receives Hartranft Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Bird, Director of the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission, on Saturday, received AOPA&#8217;s highest honor for government officials. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"143\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/NASAO3 001edita_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Each year the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association presents the Joseph B. &quot;Doc&quot; Hartranft Jr. Award to a federal, state, local or foreign government official who has made significant contributions to the advancement of general aviation. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis year&rsquo;s award was made during a special awards program at AOPA Aviation Summit in Long Beach, Calif. <br \/>\nBird served as chairman of the National Association of State Aviation Officials, is a member of the Governor&rsquo;s Council for Workforce and Economic Development, and is on the aviation advisory boards for both Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe Joseph B. &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Hartranft Jr. Award is named for AOPA&rsquo;s first employee, longtime president and former chairman of the board. <br \/>\nBird will be featured in the next issue of the State Aviation Journal due out in December. <\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Bird, Director of the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission, on Saturday, received AOPA&#8217;s highest honor for government officials. Each year the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association presents the Joseph B. &quot;Doc&quot; Hartranft Jr. Award to a federal, state, local or foreign government official who has made significant contributions to the advancement of general aviation. &nbsp; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/NASAO3 001edita_0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}