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Academy of Model Aeronautics · National Model Aviation Museum

The people, clubs and companies that built model aviation, in their own words.

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  1. First page of Pennsylvania Avenue Radio Control Society (PARCS)
    5 pages Club

    Pennsylvania Avenue Radio Control Society (PARCS)

    Since late 1940s

    Carmine Bianco (“Uncle Carmine”) composed and submitted the following PARCS club history. Ever since time immemorial, man has been fascinated with flight, and it doesn’t matter the size of the plane or the age of the man. Here, at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, there is a group of men who call themselves, “The Pennsylvania Avenue Radio Control…
  2. First page of Piqua Flying Indians
    3 pages Club

    Piqua Flying Indians

    Since 1945

    Paul Moorman composed and submitted the following narrative. Piqua Flying Indians A Brief History of a Post World War II Model Airplane Club By Paul A. Moorman AMA 25202 The original Piqua Flying Indians model airplane club formed in a small town of approximately 20,000 population in Piqua, Ohio. These young men, all teenagers, were representative…
  3. First page of Plymouth Aero League (PAL Clubs)
    2 pages Club

    Plymouth Aero League (PAL Clubs)

    Club history

    This month, the Museum Archives presents more information from its collection about Plymouth Motor Corporation’s involvement in aeromodeling. (See April 2010 column) This article will more closely examine Plymouth’s community of clubs that introduced thousands of youngsters to model aviation. In the mid-to-late 1940s, some Plymouth dealerships…