About AIRCRAFT SPRUCE & Specialty Co.Aircraft Spruce

Aircraft Spruce provides virtually everything a pilot or aircraft owner might need. As a Strategic Partner since 2012, the company sponsors programs that bring hands-on knowledge and DIY spirit to AOPA members.

Featured Support

Aircraft Spruce is proud to sponsor Mike Busch’s maintenance column in AOPA Pilot magazine. Busch is a nationally-known expert in maintenance from the owner’s perspective. His company, Savvy Aviator, provides analysis and assistance with a variety of engine and airframe maintenance issues.

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February 2016: Maintenance decisions need to be fact- and evidence-based

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October 2015: Changing competitive landscape in piston GA engines

Home-Built Heritage

home built heritage In 1965, Bob and Flo Irwin founded a company that sold just one product—aircraft-grade spruce lumber. Fifty years and countless customers later, Aircraft Spruce boasts a product line of more than one hundred thousand items and a work force of two hundred. They’re proud of their company’s heritage, and thrilled that their products make it possible for aviators around the world to build their dream airplanes and keep them flying.

AOPA Products

Aircraft Spruce and its affiliate PilotShop.com provide discounts and special offers to AOPA members through their year-round participation in the AOPA Lifestyles Member Discounts program.

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AOPA MYGOFLIGHT IPAD FLIGHT BAG PLC PRO

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SCHEYDEN AOPA ALBATROSS TITAN SUNGLASSES

Aircraft Spruce has been a sponsor and advertiser with AOPA for decades and has been a Strategic Partner since 2012. We are proud to help support AOPA's efforts to help grow general aviation and protect pilots' rights. Aircraft Spruce also offers AOPA members valuable benefits through special promotions and programs.

Jim Irwin

President

AIRCRAFT SPRUCE & Specialty Co.