1949 and 1984 An airfield, and a monument to BelLetisko a pamätník Belovi

In 1949, five years after an aircraft fell out of the sky onto the village, Očová got an aeroclub of its own; the grass strip on the edge of the village, 800 by 50 metres, is still there as a non-public domestic airfield. The socialist decades did to Očová what they did to every large village in the region: the fields were collectivised, the young went to shift work at the factories in Detva and Zvolen, and fewer and fewer people stayed out on the lazy. In 1984 the village unveiled a monument to Matej Bel for the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth — a communist-era state making a point of a Lutheran scholar who wrote in Latin, because a man of that stature born in a Slovak village was worth claiming.V roku 1949, päť rokov po tom, čo na dedinu spadlo lietadlo, dostala Očová vlastný aeroklub; trávnatá dráha na okraji obce, 800 krát 50 metrov, tam je dodnes ako neverejné vnútroštátne letisko. Socialistické desaťročia urobili s Očovou to, čo s každou veľkou dedinou v kraji: polia združstevnili, mladí odišli na zmeny do fabrík v Detve a vo Zvolene a na lazoch zostávalo čoraz menej ľudí. V roku 1984 odhalili v obci pamätník Mateja Bela k tristému výročiu jeho narodenia — komunistický štát si robil zástavu z evanjelického učenca píšuceho po latinsky, lebo muža takého formátu narodeného v slovenskej dedine sa oplatilo prihlásiť za svojho.