At an event this year, I met AMA member Paul Morante and learned about the Uxbridge Youth Soccer League (UYSL), which held its 4th Annual UYSL RC Airshow and Vendor Fair on October 19, 2025, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. This event is a unique collaboration that showcases the flying skills of some of AMA’s award-winning New England RC pilots, with a variety of impressive Giant Scale model aircraft. This event supports UYSL’s largest fundraiser.
Paul, a highway division superintendent for the town, coordinates the RC airshow demonstrations and activities alongside UYSL. The goal is to raise $160,000 to prevent irrigation issues by releveling the Sutton Field Complex into five competition soccer fields. This renovation will improve seasonal soccer league games and increase community use, potentially creating an AMA club site with dedicated RC flying times.
This was one of the best local events that I have attended. Highlights included a well-designed flying site with a large, manicured runway, safe pit and spectator areas, ample parking, superb food and craft vendors, raffle tables, and skilled AMA RC pilots. Kids’ activities, including a candy drop, an RC Iron Man flight, and AMA RC flight simulators, were thrilling. All of these features added to the suggested $5 attendee donation and the $75 vendor attendance fee.
A big shoutout of “thank you” goes to Paul for his excellent coordination, and to my team, Associate Vice President Kevin Ryan and AMA Leader Member Wayne Watjus, for helping me with the kids on the simulators and answering attendee questions about AMA and aeromodeling. This was a win-win event for everyone involved!
The following report came from another of our talented team of active Associate Vice Presidents, Jim Cyr:
Welcome to the Champlain Valley Flyers (CVF) to District I. The district officers and members are looking forward to your club’s activities and events that some of us have had the pleasure of attending during your 23 years at your Crown Point, New York, site.
Congratulations on acquiring the use of this awesome site from a sixth-generation landowner, Ed Peet, who just happened to have an airfield on his property.
Having attended your inaugural, four-day Valley of the Giants event at the new site in July and the Warbirds Over Cornwall event in August 2024, I and others were blown away by the airfield. Its open and unobstructed space, enormous size, picturesque scenic view, having the use of the full-scale and the grass runway to accommodate almost any model aircraft, made for a perfect flying site.
I will be checking the club’s Facebook page to attend events in 2025.
Thanks, Jim, for this fine report about a welcoming club and a great place to fly.
Vice President
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Associate Vice Presidents
Steve Brehm, Jamestown RI; (401) 423-1085; stbrehm@yahoo.com
Jim Cyr, Madison CT; (203) 421-2145; cardenpro6@gmail.com
Edward W. Deming, North Stonington, CT; {860) 884-3222; edwardwdeming@gmail.com
Andrew Figlar, Shelton CT; (203) 513-8546; safiglar320@gmail.com
Steve Goler, Salem MA; (617) 373-0884; nipmuck2@comcast.net
Daren Hudson, Greenland NH; (603) 674-5809; dth7@comcast.net
Ray LaBonte, Standish ME;
(207) 892-7994; rplabonte@aol.com
Tom Lavoie, N. Smithfield RI; (401) 824-6134; d2tw4all@yahoo.com
Joan Liska, Middletown CT;
(860) 347-0257; jliska9000@sbcglobal.net
Mark Montella, Falmouth, MA; (508) 457-4984; montellamj@comcast.net
Joel Rosenzweig, Marlborough MA; (508) 667-3720; joel@helitronix.com
Kevin Ryan, Yarmouth Port, MA; (508) 680-3741; ryans.capecod@gmail.com
Doug Thompson, Eliot ME; (508) 838-4874; doug@dougsdrones.com
William Unghire, Newinton CT;
(860) 978-5353; n1cnv@icloud.com
Ted Wojcik, Fremont NH; (603)
479-3799; tedwojcik@comcast.net
Technology and Safety Officer
John Yassemedis, 5 Quarry Rd., Nashua NH 03062; (603) 321-8442; jyassemedis@comcast.net
Event Sanction Coordinator
Michael Fiorito, 42 Hayden Circle, Hampton NH 03842; (603) 770-3130; mfiorito61@comcast.net
Photo captions
Pictured is Ed Peet’s family with club members during the club’s warbird event in Cornwall VT. (Third from L): Jim Cyr and other pilots enjoyed flying high-speed warbird strafing flights over this fabulously long, unobstructed airfield during the CVF club’s warbird event. In 2024, the District II CVF club acquired the use of the site with a full-scale and grass runway on the Peet family’s farm in Vermont. The photo is from the club’s Warbirds Over Cornwall event in August 2024. To view CVF’s Facebook page, visit www.facebookcomphoto/?fbid=874816454688666&set=a.462479185922397. CVF’s first event at its new District I site, was Valley of the Giants and held on July 25-28, 2024. All the pilots and spectators were impressed by the facility, camaraderie, and the flying fun they had.
