Northwest Flying Clubs

Northwest Freeflight Clubs & FF Hobby shops

Seattle Area Flying Aces club Eagle Squadron 34

FLYING ACES EAGLE SQUADRON 34 WEB SITE
This club hosts two popular FLYING ACES events every year: the May Fly, and the August Quiet Riot. The club has monthly meetings and several smaller contests each year.

Contacts:
Squadron Leader:
Homer Smith
email: homer_smith@msn.com
(425) 338-3851
Treasurer:
Ed Lamb
(425) 747-7806
$10.00/yr includes newsletter.

HAWKS - BOEING Employees Free Flight Model Flying Club Seattle, WA

President: Gene Stubbs
work: (425) 234-4608 home: (206) 523-6148
Membership:
$12.00/yr includes monthly newsletter.

The HAWKS meet for indoor flying in the BOEING Oxbow Recreational Facility from 10:00am - 4:00pm, third saturday of each month. Monthly newsletter lists freeflight flying opportunities & dates for all northwest freeflight clubs. To reach Oxbow facility, start from Boeing Museum of Flight. Go one block south to S. 102nd., turn right, & go across bridge. Building at south (left) end of parking lot.
Map to Boeing Oxbow Rec. facility

SAM 8 Society of Antique Modelers
- Chapter 8 -
Seattle area club

SAM 8 WEB SITE

President: John Crosetto
(425) 746-2781
Sec./Treasurer: Homer Smith
14719 - 32nd Dr. SE
Mill Creek, WA
98012-5032
(425) 338-3851
$20.00/yr includes monthly newsletter.

SAMS 8 sponsors between 6 and 12 events/year at Harts Lake Praire on the army base. Monthly lunch meetings at one of several restaurants. Call for current meeting location. Complete monthly newsletter provides up-to-date info on contest schedule, meeting times and places, articles of interest, contest results, and pictures.
Map to Harts Lake Prairie

BEAMS - Boeing Employees Aerodynamic Modeling Society
Everett, WA

Click here for BEAMS web-site

Everett Coordinator: Greg Eggers
work: (425) 717-4914

Oxbow Coordinator: Al Turnbull
work: (206) 544-3738

BEAMS Facilitator: Keith Varnau
home: (425) 885-2335
Call for membership info, or click logo on left to visit the BEAMS web-site

Keith Varnau, founder of BEAMS, is the prime mover behind the huge "Day in the Hangar" events held in the Boeing 747 & 777 Hangar (95 foot ceiling!). Held once or twice a year depending on aircraft production, it has pulled over 1500 people, including over 300 beginning modelers and 100 experienced modelers. BEAMS also meets at the Boeing Everett Activity Center for indoor flying (an 2nd Sat) and building sessions (on 1st & 3rd Thur). Call for details or see their website: www.beams.ws Let BEAMS bring the kid out in you...!
Boeing Everett Activity Center Map

WMC Willamette Modelers Club
Albany, Oregon

This Year's (2000) annual Kibbe Dome event was held July 22-24, with an International EZB Contest on July 25th.
AMA CONTEST Director:
Andy Tagliafico
Tel: (503) 452-0546

The WMC has both a winter indoor schedule (held in the South Albany High School gym - 36ft? ceiling) and a summer outdoor schedule of flying meets. Andy Tagliafico, long-time WMC member, organizes the famous Kibbe Dome Annual, usually held late July/early August in Moscow Idaho. The Kibbe Dome has a 140 foot plus ceiling, and is the site of several world record indoor flights. Contact the WMC club for times, places, and dates.
Map to South Albany High

STRAT-O-BATS Model Airplane Club
Seattle, WA

President: Mark Sexton
Sec./Treasurer: Mike Roberts
2435 - 53rd S.W. Seattle, WA 98116
Tel. #: (206) 937-2740
Membership: $12/yr in US, $14/yr in Canada
$15 US dollars for foreign.
Membership includes monthly newsletter.

The STRAT-O-BATS is a Northwest Freeflight Model club. Members participate in SAM 8, FLYING ACES, BEAMS, HAWKS, and Willamette Modelers club events.

Abernathy's Northwest Hobbies Inc. Abernathy's carries Sig contest balsa. This is the first place I check if I have to get some contest balsa on short notice. They also stock a small number of rubber-powered flying scale kits. If it can be ordered, they'll order it for you.
Abernathy's Northwest Hobbies
2105 - 140th Ave. NE
Bellevue, WA
phone: (425) 747-9914

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