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The New Foundation Board Members

Dean Palermo (Miami area, Florida) Dean Palermo is a Client Relations and Business Consultant for Palermo, Landsman, and Ross P.A. (full service account service). Palermo takes his extensive experience working with Fortune 500 companies from which he offers consulting services to our client base of...

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RC Resale on the road at AMA Expo East

The AMA Foundation is taking RC Resale on the road February 23-25 to set up in the Swap Shop at AMA Expo East in Secaucus, New Jersey. Thanks to a generous donation from Charles Sylvia, we will have over 20 planes for sale.This is the third time Charles has donated planes to the Foundation and the...

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Local Area Fun Flyers News Coverage

The Local Area Fun Flyers (LAFF) are located in Bullhead City, AZ. The club was covered in the Mohave Valley Daily News on Dec. 27. The RC club has 30 members and they meet at the Rodney Briscoe Memorial Flying Field at Rotary Park in Arizona. LAFF is actively looking for other RC aircraft...

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Casa Grande RC Flyers Make Improvements To Airfield

The Casa Grande RC Flyers airfield located in Casa Grande, AZ recently installed WeatherLink, a new weather monitoring station. WeatherLink offers real-time information about current weather conditions which include temperatures, rainfall totals, humidity, wind speeds and direction. The data that...

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Mid Coast Radio Control Club Receives Club Recognition and Reward Grant

The Mid Coast Radio Control Club recently received an AMA Club Recognition and Reward grant for $75. The club is located in Union, ME. The Mid Coast Radio Control group president, Greg Morse, invited “Village Soup” reporter Louis Bettcher to their airfield. The day was filled with information about...

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Palomar Radio Controlled Flyers Club Receives AMA Club Recognition and Reward Grant

Palomar Radio Controlled Flyers club recently received an AMA Club Recognition and Reward Grant for $75. This club is located in San Marcos, CA. The club was recently in “The San Diego Union-Tribune” because the club needs a new home. They have been gathering in a big, vacant field in Fallbrook, CA...

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Hampton Roads Radio Control Group Holds Event for a Good Cause

The Hampton Roads Radio Control group hosted the 11th annual Toys for Tots Fly-in on Nov. 4. The event was held at their field in Suffolk, VA. All proceeds from the event went to the Suffolk’s Toys for Tots Program. More than 30 pilots registered for the event. There was a $10 landing fee or a...

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Radio Control Sport Flyers Receive AMA Club and Recognition and Reward Grant

The Radio Control Sports Flyers recently received an AMA Club Recognition and Reward Grant for $50. The club is located in Kansas City, MO. The club hosted an AMA sanctioned memorial fun-fly on Sept. 17 to honor two recently deceased club members, Bob Processor of Greenwood and Herb Hestand of Lee’...

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Desert Hawks Receive AMA Club Recognition and Reward Grant

The Desert Hawks recently received an AMA club recognition and reward grant for $75. This club is located in Lake Havasu City, AZ. The club hosted their 32nd Seaplane Classic which was held on Saturday, Nov. 4. The event was free to spectators. Sixty-one pilots registered for the event and had to...

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Donor Spotlight: Donald William Carnes

It’s with great sadness we report the passing of AMA member Donald W. (Bill) Carnes of Florida. He passed in March 2017 at the age of 84. Bill was a long time member of the AMA and participant in his local model aircraft club in Naples, Florida. Bill is the newest member of the AMA Foundation...

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Foundation News

The New Foundation Board Members

RC Resale on the road at AMA Expo East

Local Area Fun Flyers News Coverage

Casa Grande RC Flyers Make Improvements To Airfield

Mid Coast Radio Control Club Receives Club Recognition and Reward Grant

Palomar Radio Controlled Flyers Club Receives AMA Club Recognition and Reward Grant

Hampton Roads Radio Control Group Holds Event for a Good Cause

Radio Control Sport Flyers Receive AMA Club and Recognition and Reward Grant

Desert Hawks Receive AMA Club Recognition and Reward Grant

Donor Spotlight: Donald William Carnes

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