{"id":998,"date":"2017-06-25T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/?p=998"},"modified":"2017-11-28T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T00:21:32","slug":"copa-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"June 22-25 &#8211; COPA Convention in Kelowna, British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend we attended the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association Convention and Trade Show in Kelowna, BC. We had four days of beautiful Okanagan weather, met aviation minded folks from across the country and learned a few things along the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170624_21_11_33_Rich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-996\" src=\"http:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170624_21_11_33_Rich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170624_21_11_33_Rich.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170624_21_11_33_Rich-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170624_21_11_33_Rich-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170624_21_11_33_Rich-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were able to get a photo with the chairman, Jean Messier, and the president, Bernard Gervais. This was the debut of our Canada Flag that we will be carrying across the country from coast to coast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170623_14_20_21_Pro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-997\" src=\"http:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170623_14_20_21_Pro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170623_14_20_21_Pro.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170623_14_20_21_Pro-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170623_14_20_21_Pro-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WP_20170623_14_20_21_Pro-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We parked on a well groomed open field and some brave flyers camped with their aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This weekend we attended the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association Convention and Trade Show in Kelowna, BC. We had four days of beautiful Okanagan weather, met aviation minded folks from across the country and learned a few things along the way. We were able to get a photo with the chairman, Jean Messier, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/?p=998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June 22-25 &#8211; COPA Convention in Kelowna, British Columbia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada150flight2017.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}