Winona Aeromodelers

AMA Club Number: 2141 - Winona Minnesota

Club Officers

President	Phil Conway
Secretary	Dick Mahoney
Treasurer	Bill Kuhl	(507) 454-8402	bkuhl@luminet.net

About the Winona Aeromodelers Club

The Winona Aeromodelers club has been part of Winona for the past 34 years. Member primary interest has been radio control sport and scale aircraft.

Coming Events

Picnic at the Flying Field Sunday June 8, 2003 at 12:30

Club will provide hot dogs, plates, and silverware.

Please bring a dish to pass and your own drinks.

Bad weather date - June 15.

New Flying Field

Late summer of 2001, the Winona Aeromodelers moved to a new flying field that was near the former Winona County Landfill. To make the site useable, a considerable amount of dirt was hauled in and leveled, grass was planted. Unfortunately, an extended period of hot, dry weather followed. Fortunately, the grass did come up and club members did considerable other work in preparing the field for fall flying.

Besides considerable time and effort from club members, the Winona Aeromodelers were blessed with generous contributions from local businesses and individuals, helping to make this a field they could be proud of.

In 2001, the Winona Aeromodelers were awarded a Media Award from the Radio Control Hobby Trade Association for the promotion of the hobby to the public at the Max Conrad Fun Fly.

Map to Flying Field - Members are normally there Wed. evening and Sunday afternoon weather permitting.

Field Description

There are two grass runways, 75 feet wide that criss-cross. One runway runs East and West, the other is Northeast and Southwest.

Becoming a Member

Dues - $25 annual club dues $1 annual club dues for junior member.

Everyone must have current AMA membership.

Academy of del Aeronautics

Academy of Model Aeronautics

Pictures From the Flying Field

View looking out of parking/pit area.
Shaded area with large new shed and picnic tables.

Local cable channel captured flying at the new field for later broadcast. Bob Wera taking off. Dick Mahoney's very nice Hangar 9 J3 Cub.

Bill Baechler's planes; Aerobat by Flitecraft on the left, Caprice by Lanier RC on the right.
Paul Calhoun's profile plane performing a roll.

Ken Spittler's J3 Cub caught from the rear. Jim Vogel's Super Decathlon coming in for another smooth landing.

Electric Speed 400 powered plane.

Max Conrad Fun Fly - for many years the Winona Aeromodelers have had held a fun fly on the second Sunday in September at the Winona airport - Max Conrad Field. A large variety of model aircraft are flown including many impressive scale aircraft.

Scale Jenny on takeoff, this model won "Best of Show"

Model jets powered by model turbine jet engines looked and sounded like the real thing.

In 2002, best of show went to this 1/2 scale Brown Racer. Brown Racer in flight.

Brown Racer from the rear. Dick Mahoney's Corsair

A large number of local spectators come to watch and ask questions. An increasing number of electric powered models have been flown at the fun fly the last couple of years. All of these electric models belong to one pilot.


View looking out of parking/pit area.		Shaded area with large new shed and picnic tables.

Local cable channel captured flying at the new field for later broadcast. Bob Wera taking off.		Dick Mahoney's very nice Hangar 9 J3 Cub.

Bill Baechler's planes; Aerobat by Flitecraft on the left, Caprice by Lanier RC on the right.		Paul Calhoun's profile plane performing a roll.

Ken Spittler's J3 Cub caught from the rear.		Jim Vogel's Super Decathlon coming in for another smooth landing.

Max Conrad Fun Fly - for many years the Winona Aeromodelers have had held a fun fly on the second Sunday in September at the Winona airport - Max Conrad Field. A large variety of model aircraft are flown including many impressive scale aircraft.
		Scale Jenny on takeoff, this model won "Best of Show"

Model jets powered by model turbine jet engines		looked and sounded like the real thing.

In 2002, best of show went to this 1/2 scale Brown Racer.		Brown Racer in flight.

Brown Racer from the rear.		Dick Mahoney's Corsair

A large number of local spectators come to watch and ask questions.		An increasing number of electric powered models have been flown at the fun fly the last couple of years. All of these electric models belong to one pilot.