Aero Linx: Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA)
Mission: To advance, promote, and preserve the Canadian freedom to fly.
Our Strategic Vision: COPA will be the strong, recognized and credible voice, sufficient in size and capability to optimize access to Personal Aviation in Canada.
Background: The idea to form COPA was born in April, 1952. Back then, Laurentian Air Services pilot John Bogie was having lunch in the Ottawa Flying Club lounge with Spartan Air Services pilot Bill Peppler and Paul Saunders when Ottawa pilot Margaret Carson came storming in and declared that something had to be done about the way small aircraft owners and ope