Academy of Model Aeronautics · National Model Aviation Museum
The people, clubs and companies that built model aviation, in their own words.
Search 1,062 biographies of modelers, designers and contest fliers, plus the histories of 62 clubs and 26 companies, preserved by the AMA History Project.
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Air Youth of America (AYA)
Club history
Air Youth of America By Ernest Gamache, New York City Executive Director of Air Youth of America Those of you who took advantage of the opportunity to go through the NACA labs this morning - and I trust most of you did - must have been deeply impressed with the activity we were privileged to see. I, for one, have no further qualms on the threat of…
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3 pages Club
Airplane Model League of America (AMLA)
Club history
The Airplane Model League of America (AMLA) What do we know about the AMLA? Well, I’ll tell you this - it’s not much. Here, from a variety of sources - from online references to magazine articles to collections in the Museum’s Archives – is what has been gleaned about this very large group that seemed to disappear as quickly as it emerged.…
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3 pages Club
Auglaize Buzzard Baiter's Radio Control Flying Club
Club history
Auglaize Buzzard Baiters History In May 1975, an article in the local newspaper invited anyone interested in remote control airplanes to a meeting. Sixteen people attended and they decided to form a club and find a location where they could fly. By July, they had received permission to fly at the south end of the New Knoxville airport sod runway…