Written by AMA Staff (08/1971); Edited by JS (06/2010)
Stan Chilton AMA District IX Vice-president (Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado)
Stan Chilton started modeling airplanes at the age of 10 and has enthusiastically followed the hobby through the years to his present age of 45. Stan and Judy, his wife, have three children: a girl 20, a boy 12, and another boy of 16 who is state golf champion. Their home is in Wichita, Kansas, where Chilton is the owner and president of the Music Services Company. His company owns, operates, and places about 500 coin-operated phonographs, vending and amusement machines in business establishments. The 25th anniversary of Stan’s company is upcoming on September 28th. Stan is a member of the Music Operators of America and of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce.
Stan’s hobbies other than modeling are golf and basketball coaching. He works in junior programs in basketball and model airplaning.
Stan’s modeling accomplishments include the holding of the FAI Category I Indoor World Record, set May 1968. He is a member of the Wichihawks Model Club and was one of the organizers of the Wichita Modelers Council, a group of all the model clubs in the area which banded together to obtain the Wichita Model Flying Field through the cooperation of Beechcraft. Stan is very knowledgeable in all phases of aeromodeling and understands each modeler’s particular viewpoint and needs, whether it be that of a contest of sport flyer, or Radio Control, Control Line, Free Flight, or Scale.
In his service to airplane modeling through AMA, Chilton has been an AMA Contest Director since 1960, District IX Contest Coordinator 1961-1964, Central Area FAI Free Flight Committeeman 1964-1965, and District IX Free Flight Contest Board member 1964-1966. Stan Chilton has served as District IX vice president from 1967 to the present time, adding his enthusiasm for modeling and his solid successful businessman’s experience to his Executive Council activities. Stan is a tall handsome fellow who travels to many contests, getting acquainted with many folks, and adds a quiet, intelligent dignity to the image of airplane modeling.
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