The talk of the 1930 Airplane Model Contest is on exhibit in the museum from now until Labor Day 2016. The Boeing P-12B had just begun operations for the United States Military in 1930. That same year that William Chaffee built a scale version for the Airplane Model League of […]
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New Addition: 1st Place 1949 Nats Seaplane Event Trophy
1949 Nats lists record that Ted Enticknap won 1st place in Free Flight Gas Class D, Open Class and Free Flight Gas, Rise off Water. He was flying his Gool, which was donated to the museum in 2010. To more fully tell the Gool’s story, the Enticknap Family and Allyn […]
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The Golden Peanut Trophy of 1967
In 1967, Henry Struck, flying a Howard Pete built from Dallaire plans won the first Peanut Scale competition. Appropriately, the trophy he won was titled The Golden Peanut. The trophy is made from wood, plastic and a real peanut painted gold. After almost 40 years the trophy was in pretty […]
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The Villard Trophy is Here!
The very first trophy awarded for national modeling competition is now at the National Model Aviation Museum. The Henry S. Villard Trophy, is on loan to the AMA from the San Diego Air and Space Museum. It will be on exhibit in the museums Nats exhibit from June to September […]
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Xochiyaoyotl Contest Trophy
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Flying a Todi RC Sailplane at the 1973 Xochiyaoyotl contest in Mexico, Stuart Cornew won this trophy. It features a hand-carved miniature Diamant sailplane. Can anyone translate the Spanish for us? The Todi, this trophy, and several similar trophies were donated in 2013 by Stuart Cornew […]
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The Walt Billett Loving Cup Group
At first glance, this picture doesn’t look too creepy, right? It is pretty normal, all the men who have won the Walt Billett Loving Cup posing with the trophy. Except, look a bit closer. Not all these men are who they seem to be. Look for more info on the […]
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New Addition: Celia Goldberg Memorial Award
Every year between 1950 and 2014, the Celia Goldberg Memorial Award was presented to the winner of the Senior Class Free Flight AA Gas Model event sponsored by the Chicago Aeronuts. The club is no longer able to hold the event and decided to retire the trophy to the museum. […]
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First awarded in 1931, the Sacramento Union Trophy was awarded annually at the California State Model Airplane Contest for the Champion of the Outdoor Duration Flying Event – Hydroairplane. Carl Rambo won the trophy at the last competition in 1941. In the 1990s Carl, a founding member of the Oakland […]
Continue readingMarble vs. Granite
Here at the museum we have multiple projects that are handled not only by our regular staff, but also our interns. While working on his summer internship project of inventorying and creating a better storage solution for the museum’s trophy collection, Cameron Anderson stumbled upon an interesting problem. The problem […]
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