# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Talk | General Aviation Industry in America with Donald Pattillo
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 11:00 am
- **Event Description**: The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force's monthly Author Talk series is proud to present author Donald Pattillo, who will be discussing his book The General Aviation Industry in America ~ a History. This program will take place on November 12th at 11:00 am at the museum.

The program is free to the public, but please register at https://forms.gle/aFTNnTpCpJgD3zqv5

Optional Lunch: Join us for an optional lunch afterwards. $10/12 cash/credit for members or $15/17cash/credit for non-members.

About the Book
The industry known as "general aviation"--encompassing all flying outside of the military and commercial airlines--dates from the early days of powered flight. 

As technology advanced, making possible smaller aircraft that could be owned and operated by civilians, manufacturers emerged to a serve a growing market.
Increasingly this meant business flying, as companies used aircraft in a variety of roles. The industry struggled during the Great Depression but development continued; small aircraft manufacturers became vital to the massive military production effort during World War II.

After the war, rapid technological advancement and a robust, prosperous middle class were expected to result in a democratized civil aviation industry. For many reasons this was never realized, even as general aviation roles and aircraft capabilities expanded. Despite its many reverses and struggles, entrepreneurship has remained the driving factor of the industry.


About the Author
Donald Pattillo has been a historian of the American aircraft industry for more than twenty-five years. He served in the United States Air Force in the 1960s. He holds a PhD. in business from Georgia State University, and taught finance and international business in a twenty-year academic career. In the 1990s he turned to his first love, aviation, and researched and published two histories of the American aircraft industry, Pushing the Envelope, published by the University of Michigan Press, and A History in the Making, 80 Turbulent Years in the American General Aviation Industry, published by the McGraw-Hill Book Company. Later, he published articles on the history of the aircraft industry and of commercial airlines in the Scribner’s Dictionary of American History, 2003. In 2015 he published The Nonexistent Threat, an extensively researched account of the Cold War Soviet nuclear bombing threat to North America, in the AAHS Journal. A revised and updated  Second Edition of the general aviation industry, entitled The General Aviation Industry in America, was published by McFarland and Company, 2020.

With completion of the historical works, Dr. Pattillo turned toward a novel involving the Wright brothers. Long fascinated by their lives, he developed a historical romance blending their actual lives and accomplishments with an imagined romance. The result is A Romance of Flight, published in 2021 by Mountain Arbor Press.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Pooler
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 175 Bourne Ave, Pooler, GA, United States, Georgia 31322
- **lat**: 32.11553
- **long**: -81.2365
- **full address**: 175 Bourne Ave, Pooler, GA, United States, Georgia 31322

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