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Twentyfive Years Since the First ASA Bulletin
The first issue of the ASA Bulletin was published in 1971 by the Air Spotter Association, a group formed one year before in Caselle and which later grew to about three hundred members in Italy and abroad.
ASA was inspired more by the then well established "Air Britain" rather than by the typical national organizations like UNGA and AICA.
ASA was created from "below", among young aviation enthusiasts who nurtured wider interests than were covered by the specialized Italian press of the time. The ASA Bulletin introduced to Italy short reports from airports, airlines, air force bases and industries; it covered aircraft with precise production lists and gave a first treatment to the civil marking Registers.
Some of the other new features comprised aviation radio frequencies, aircraft accidents and detailed traffic at the major Italian airports.
More detailed pictures, also useful to modellers, were offered by the magazine.
The ASA Bulletin lasted just four years, totalling 18 issues, overwhelmed by the increasing production costs and by the limited number of its readers.
Some of the publishing originalities of the ASA Bulletin are regular features of Italian aviation magazines today.
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