KOB.com Web Staff Pilots have been flying radio controlled model airplanes at Arroyo del Oso Park for more than 20 years. City ordinances prohibit flying in almost every Albuquerque city park, but under an agreement with a previous mayor’s administration, they could fly here, according to longtime pilot Ron Lightfoot. […]
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New life for old landfill as a model airplane park
By Suzanne Michaels and Isabel Walters For the sun-News “It’s going to be a dynamite facility,” says Gerard DeLong, president of the Mesilla Valley Model Airplane Club (MVMAC). “We’re hoping, with the new field, that we’ll be able to possibly sponsor some national activities with the national organization, Academy of […]
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Fairfax County Approves New Model Airplane Park
By: CENTREVILLE INDEPENDENT STAFF | The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved an application from the Northern Virginia Radio Control club to establish an airfield, runway and pit area on the closed Lorton Landfill. The approval came on a zoning request change from the club. The new airpark, on the I-95 landfill, will […]
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Silverhill RC Club’s flying site and theme park!
Hi Tony! Here is the story of the Silverhills RC Club, AMA Charter 5148, and how I found our flying site. Included are some pictures of the new field before work started and after it was completed. I searched for a little over a year starting in late 2012 to […]
Continue readingOkeechobee Model Airplane Club gets new field
This past Thursday the Board of Okeechobee County Commissioners granted us permission to use a portion of the County Fairgrounds as an RC Park on a trial basis for 6 months. This has been a 3 year process and late last year a car club started up in town and […]
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