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1999 holiday cards commemorate Air Safety Foundation’s 50th anniversary
A unique collection of aviation-theme holiday greeting cards celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the AOPA Air Safety Foundation are now available.
The cards, printed on high-quality recycled paper with vegetable-based inks, feature original works of art by such famed aviation artists as Ross Buckland, Nixon Galloway, Gene Galasso, John Fehringer, Valerie Pfeiffer, and Kristin Hill. Aircraft ranging from a Ford Tri-Motor to a Waco 10 and Noordyn Norseman are shown against beautiful seasonal backgrounds. Last year, more than one-half million cards were purchased.
“There is no better way to enjoy the season than to help improve GA’s safety record,” said ASF Executive Director Bruce Landsberg. “These original designs express your sentiment to friends and family, make a statement about your passion for flying, and help support a cause you care about.”
Royalties go to support ASF’s nationally recognized free safety seminars. More than 250 safety seminars are being presented nationwide in 1999.
Some of this year’s holiday card designs include:
- Winter Landing, depicting a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver on floats approaching the warm glow of a cabin on a frosty mountain lake;
- Perfect Holiday, featuring a Stearman near a farmhouse decorated for the holiday season;
- Christmas Eve, ASF’s special fiftieth anniversary edition card showing a Noordyn Norseman about to touch down on a glassy lake glistening in the light of a full moon. The card features an embossed silver foil border.
- Santa’s Arrival, an original cartoon of Santa in a biplane given clearance to land by a holiday flag-waving reindeer.
There are 14 designs in all from which to choose. Boxes of 25 cards with envelopes range in price from $22 to $27. Personalized imprinting is free when ordering three or more boxes. For each box ordered, ASF supporters receive two free gifts—a set of return address labels and a sheet of decorative holiday seals.
To order, download an order form from the ASF section of the AOPA Web site or call 800/308-4285. The last day to order in time for the holidays is Friday, December 3.
The AOPA Air Safety Foundation is the nonprofit educational organization solely dedicated to improved general aviation safety. It is supported primarily by contributions from individual pilots, foundations, and companies who share ASF’s dedication to safer flying.
99-3-058
September 16, 1999
