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About Us
The Rice Lake Model
Airplane Club was first established
around 1970 by Mr. Frank Kelly, a
teacher at Rice Lake High School.
The first club members were students
of Mr. Kelly. The club recently
averages around 30-50 members per
year. Starting in 1972 the club
became a member of the Academy of
Model Aeronautics, (AMA). The
world’s largest aviation sport
organization.
The RLMAC is a self-supported,
nonprofit club. Our purpose is to
promote a shared enjoyment of model
aviation as a recreation activity,
building and flying radio control
aircraft is our main focus; however,
we are a multi-interest club.
Club activities have included annual
displays at the local Fairgrounds
and Regional Airport, Seminars for
youth ages 8–16 and educational
presentations of general and model
aviation at local schools. The club
has held many organized model
airplane events open to model
enthusiasts from all around our
state, and including Minnesota,
Michigan, Illinois, and North
Dakota. These events have included
Fun-flies, Jet-flies,
and Float-flying. We also typically
hold several member only fun-flies
at our various flying sites
throughout the summer. A few of our
members participate in local and
regional combat flying for fun and
competition.
The club currently has multiple
flying sites available to its
members. Small gas and electric
planes can be flown at the south end
of Moon Lake Park in the City of
Rice Lake. This is through an
arrangement made with the Park Board
and the City of Rice Lake to insure
the south park area through our
club’s charter with the AMA. A
second location is our Southern
District flying site located east of
Chetek on a member’s private
property. This location is also
insured through our club’s charter
with the AMA. We have recently
gained access to another flying site
10 miles south of Barron on a
privately owned airport. We
continually seek out new flying site
locations in an attempt to satisfy
our memberships very widespread
locations.
To fly at our AMA sanctioned sites,
you must be a member of the AMA. As
a member you receive liability
insurance coverage for flying
activities, a membership card, and a
monthly magazine called Model
Aviation.
We currently have a monthly
newsletter sent out to all members
that notifies them of any club
meetings, or flying activities in
the area. Our website features a
forum and other club related
information.
Anyone interested in model aviation
is encouraged to visit us at our
website, a meeting, one of our
flying sites, or by contacting one
of our members. Club membership is
open to anyone who would like to be
involved in this fascinating hobby. |
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