Author: Ilona Maine

The March 31 deadline for clubs to renew their annual charter status has come and gone and there are nearly 400 clubs that have not submitted their renewal documents for the 2018 charter year. Life becomes busy and sometimes things slip through the cracks. Perhaps that’s what happened to your club renewal. […]

The renewal season has begun. We just completed mailing all club charter renewals to the club officer designated as your club contact. If you are the contact officer and you have not yet received the 2018 renewal package, you should receive it soon! Keep in mind that during the rechartering […]

Model aircraft have flown recreationally within the safety guidelines of the AMA for more than 80 years and have achieved an excellent safety record. Find out how to safely integrate commercial flights at your flying site. Whether it’s a local business testing its equipment or a fire department training first […]

Most property owners want to be assured that they are protected if they allow a club or an event to use their property as a flying site. Generally, a site owner will ask for an insurance certificate or to be named as an “additional insured.” AMA chartered clubs and sanctioned […]

You know your club members better than we do, so you could already have a perfect person in mind, but just in case you are on the fence, here are some suggested skills that you might want to consider in finding the best person for the job. Your safety coordinator […]

Organizational bylaws usually deal with such items as name, purpose, membership, dues, officers and their duties, executive committee, safety matters, meeting place and time, order of business, and how to amend the bylaws. If your club has an issue unique to your area, this issue should be addressed within the […]

With all of the recent news concerning drones and multirotor aircraft, are you left with questions concerning how, or if, you should include these types of aircraft at your club field? The goal of this article is to help you better understand these issues. If you have been around RC […]

The AMA’s History Project was created to tell the complete story of model aviation through a collection of histories of modelers, clubs, and companies. There are thousands of model aviation-related clubs in the US, but our program only has the histories of a few in our online collection! Please help […]

  The March 31 deadline for clubs to renew their annual charter status has come and gone and there are nearly 400 clubs that have not submitted their renewal documents for the 2017 charter year. Life becomes busy and sometimes things slip through the cracks. Perhaps that’s what happened to your club […]