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District V held Heli Fest on April 12th-14th in Statesboro Georgia. The event was hosted by Helen’s Hobbies at Prosser Field. Several pilots and spectators showed up to enjoy the beautiful weather and flying. The noon time demo flights were put on by AMA Youth Ambassador Nick Maxwell, Matt Botos, […]

The 2013 scholarship deadline is approaching. All applications need to be postdated no later than April 30th 2013. Applicants for the Charles H. Grant, Weak Signals, and Telford scholarships must apply during their senior year of high school and be a member of the AMA for 3 consecutive years. Applicants […]

  The AMA would like to say congratulations to Youth Ambassador and Camp AMA Instructor RJ Gritter for winning ETOC!   In early 2006, in the days when all I flew were glow-powered sport planes at my local club and hardly knew what 3D was, I was browsing the Flying […]

Please give a warm welcome to our newest additions to the charter club program: Watertown Aeromodelers RC Club (Watertown, WI), Sinkland RC (Christiansburg, VA), Blowin’ Money RC (Walnut, IL), and Eco-Friendly Little Airplane Society (Port Orchard, WA)! LEARN MORE ABOUT AMA CHARTERED CLUBS > FIND A CLUB NEAR YOU >

We are implementing several research surveys during the next few months to help us serve you with new or improved services and membership value. Not only is the survey available here for you to complete, it was emailed to specific members representing criteria such as their length of membership. If […]

    The AMA is proud to announce our newest education partner: the Soaring Society of America (SSA). The SSA was formed in 1932 to foster and promote all phases of full-scale soaring or gliding, which is flying in a specially-designed plane that does not have an engine. The SSA […]

The Basil and Dorothy Cooper Memorial Scholarship, established in 2012, will be granted to a current college student pursuing an engineering or technical degree while enrolled at an accredited four-year institution. Scholarship founder, Basil Cooper Jr., has established this $500 scholarship in memory of his parents, Dorothy and Basil Cooper […]

I am Mitch Marozas.  I am 15 years old and live in Chicago, Illinois.  I have been flying RC helicopters since I was about 6 years old.  It all started when I was 4 years old and found my dad’s old RC airplanes and helicopters in a closet and wanted to know what they were […]

 The AMA posted on the AMA website its revised policies for R/C model aircraft operations utilizing First Person View (FPV) systems (AMA document # 550) and Failsafe, Stabilization and Autopilot Systems (AMA document #560) on November 2, 2012. After a two month review by aeromodeling stakeholders, including members of the […]