The National Model Aviation Museum invites visitors to view an exciting new aircraft: the Sparrow, on loan from Zipline. The Sparrow, developed by Zipline in 2016, was initially operated in Rwanda. It is an autonomous aircraft that flies to remote medical clinics delivering life-saving blood, vaccines, and medications safely to […]
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Museum Accepts Two Models from Sig Manufacturing
On April 20 and 21, AMA Museum Director Michael Smith and Model Aviation Executive Editor Jay Smith traveled to Sig Manufacturing in Motezuma, Iowa, to pick up Maxey Hester’s P-63 King Cobra and Claude McCullough’s Skypirate. Both Maxey and Claude worked for Sig and were also famous Scale model competitors. […]
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Byron Originals radio control Pitts S-1A – Donated by Dave Herbert
In the mid-1970s Byron LeRoy Godbersen decided to take his interest in model aviation a step further and begin developing and selling large scale remote controlled models of civilian and military aircraft. In 1979, he founded Byron Originals and that same year the new company released its first kit, the […]
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New Additions: MQM-170A and MQM-170C
In 2003, Griffon Aerospace’s MQM-170A Outlaw was selected to be the next Remotely Piloted Vehicle Target (RPVT) for the US Army. This aircraft replaced Continental RPV’s 1/5 scale Su-25 Frogfoot and Mi-24 Hind-D helicopter as the primary training aid for the Stinger man-portable air-defense missile system, while also offering the […]
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New Addition: Miss DARA
Recently, Travis Flynn and Dan Kane Jr. stopped by to talk about the Miss DARA pylon racer they donated earlier in the year. Designed in 2012-2013, this model was built in 2015 specifically for the 2015 F3T World Air Game Event in Dubai. Due to a problem with the fuel […]
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New Addition: Covering Material
Thank you to David Trogdon for donating this Microlon covering material! Thank you for helping to grow the collection! ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: www.modelaircraft.org/museum
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New Addition: Digit Migit
Thanks to Joseph DeJohn for donating this World Engines Digit Migit 3 transmitter! Thanks for helping to grow the collection, Joe!
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New Addition: Das Ugly Stick items
George A. Walker worked with Phil Kraft to draw the plans & build the original Das Ugly Stick. He recently donated to the museum, a set of the original hand-drawn plans, as well as the model’s original cowl and pilot figure. Thank you, George, for helping to grow the museum’s […]
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New Addition: Thank you tray!
The WRAMs showed Walt Schroder (former editor of Model Airplane News) how much they appreciated him by presenting him with this engraved tray. Recently, John Schroder, in memory of his father, Walt Schroder donated the tray to the museum. Thank, you, John, for helping to grow the museum’s collection! ————————————————————————— […]
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New Addition: Pewter Mule
New on exhibit is the Pewter Mule, a model rocket powered by 24 D12 rocket motors and built by Kirby Hinson, Owen Morris and David Glock in 1979. Conceived as a a simulation of an aborted shuttle launch, the Pewter Mule boosted a 1/40th scale Orbiter model to altitude before […]
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