What's Happening at the Bill Osborne Model Airplane Flying Field?   Come and watch the excitement every Saturday or Sunday morning.   Our club specializes in introducing youth to the exciting hobby of Control Line Model Airplane and the Model Aviation in general. So, drop by our field and we will be happy to get you started.

Bill Osborne Memorial Placard dedication on May 7th 2005

Bill Osborne Placque Dedication in Alameda with some memorable words by Jim Persons and Carlos Vadillo.

Membership Info:

Club Type: CL
AMA Club Number: 4456
Secretary
Duane Roach
3173 Phoenix Ln
Alameda CA 94502-6924
Home Phone: 510-521-8216

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Aer-O-Nuts at Contests and Events

• Father & Son Event at Alameda Naval Base
• Walt Musciano Event 2004
• U.S. Nationals 2004
• Northwest Regionals 2004
• Virgil Wilbur Memorial 2004
• Chipman Middel School Project 2003
• US Nationals 2003
• Northwest Regionals 2003
• VSC (Vintage Stunt Competition) 15
• Northwest Regionals 2001
• VSC 14

Musciano Event

Instruction

Platter Fest Fun Flying

Four Platter in the air at the New Years Day "Platter Bash" and "Pot-luck"..

Instructor, Heman Lee relaxes while flying a "Splatter" model.

Racing Clinic

Bob Frogner and Peter Parker battle it out in the racing circle.

Sport Scale

Duane Roach built this Veco P51 Mustang from scratch.

Demonstrations

Flying off the carrier deck of the USS Hornet

2006 Nat Winner

Aer-O-Nut, Paul Ferrell is the National Seniors Champion in CLPA.

US Team Trial

Father and son team of Kevin and Paul Ferrell represents the Alameda,Aer-O-Nuts with their bright yellow shirts

Winning Team

Team Bush and Perrson does it again with 3 trophies at the 'Virgil Wilbur Memorial' contest at Wittier Narrows.

Lee Letchworth of the Alameda Ae-O-Nuts takes 3rd
in 80 mph Combat at this years Regional. Lee has returned
to combat competition after a long absence.

1/2A Flying

Larry Wong's scratch built Norvel .061 powered stunter.

Community

Carlos Vadillo teaches this year "Osborne Platter Building 2003" class, with support from the Aer-O-Nut and Alameda Rec and Parks Department.

Combat Team

Dave Stevenson of Concord placed 2nd in 1/2a combat at the 2006 Northwest
Regionals.

Events

Our first annual Walt Musciano 1/2A contest was great success.

Stunt

Mike Scholtes from Alameda with his new Old Time model,
the "Stinger"

Nice monokote work by Dan Gomez on this Stelleto.

Upcoming Stunt Pilots Larry Wong and Dan Gomez

Work Party

Aer-O-Nut's work party prepare special memorial for Bill Osbourne.