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First sport pilot certificate in powered parachute issued

First sport pilot certificate in powered parachute issued

Baron Tayler will go down in the aviation history books as the first pilot to receive the sport pilot certificate with powered parachute privileges. Tayler, of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, earned the certificate Monday in Boynton, Florida, in a Powrachute Pegasus. More updates on sport pilot and light-sport aircraft are available on AOPA's sport pilot page.

March 23, 2005

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