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Friday, July 11, 2025
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75 Years and Counting…

Since 1946, the USPA has been promoting safe skydiving through training, licensing, and instructor qualification programs, ensuring skydiving’s rightful place on airports and in the airspace system, and promoting competition and record-setting programs. In honor of USPA's 75th Birthday, thank you to all our 40,000+ members for making it happen. Here's to the next 75 years of skydiving!

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