Our club recognizes and complies with the F.A.A. Reauthorization Act of 2018, Section 349. For more information click here.
The JERRY UNRUH MEMORIAL JET JAM Coming Up!!
Would you like to see our clear desert air be filled with Big Scale Turbine engine powered aircraft? Come out to see for yourself at our Jet Jam, February 10th and 11th, 2023, all the while helping our Wounded Warriors too. This air show is a one of a kind for our desert! See planes and pilots from all over the southwest. Enjoy a great lunch and a superb chance to take great videos and pictures. Just follow the link below to see for yourself.
This year’s event is dedicated to the memory of our great club member and benefactor Jerry Unruh who passed away last year.
11th Annual DESERT WARBIRDS a Success!!
The 11th Annual Desert Warbirds, January 21-22, 2023, was one of our best!! This event brings together all of us who love warbirds, from World War I flyers through today’s modern jets, plus we include Golden Age aircraft! Weather this year was picture perfect, with blue skies and snow-capped mountains providing a perfect backdrop to the beautiful warbirds. Many thanks to our awesome participating pilots, and the many great volunteers from the CVRC Club that made this event a great success! And most importantly, thanks for supporting our club and our commitment to help our wounded veterans through our donations to the Wounded Warriors Project and RAW (Rebuilding America’s Warriors).
Bob Husar has produced a special edition of Propwash to cover the event. See the link below.
Check Out the New Propwash Newsletter!
Bob Husar has stepped up to take over as editor of the Propwash Newsletter and is doing an awesome job! Click the link below to view his latest great work, Volume 1 No. 2 of Bob’s run as editor. We thank George Krueger for the many great issues of Propwash that he produced, which are available for your enjoyment under the “Articles and Media” tab.
October Twilight Fly and Potluck
The club’s October Twilight Fly and Potluck was a great success. With near perfect weather, and a beautiful full moon for illumination, approximately 25 club members and guests enjoyed a delicious potluck buffet and some great twilight flying. Mother Nature even cooperated with perfectly positioned clouds keeping the late afternoon sun out of our eyes, while adding a nice dramatic backdrop for viewing the airplanes! Thanks to all who participated and brought out such great food!
David Ginsberg flies his P-39 Airacobra into the sunset!
Alan Williamson’s 737/C-40 (Air Force 2) does a fly by.
Dan Metz and Tim Dobrowolski sample the fare at the buffet!
The after dinner spectators enjoy great flying as the moon rises over the shades.
OUR AIRFIELD TURNS 20!
The past Memorial Day weekend, our field celebrated 20 years of great flying at our current location! Despite windy weather a number of our members, including several founding members, came out to enjoy each other’s company and reminisce about the early days of our field and the great contributions by those founding members to produce the outstanding field we enjoy today. The celebration was capped off with free food and drinks.
Palm Springs Air Museum Family Day
Once again, the Palm Springs Air Museum asked the CVRC Club to participate in their Family Day over the July 4th holiday weekend. Several members of the club were on hand at the Palm Springs Air Museum for Family Day, July 2, 2022, to introduce the public to RC flight and our club, along with building balsa gliders, and lessons on the RealFlight flight simulator. The kids, and the club members, had a great time building balsa gliders and testing their skills in the distance competitions that were held several times during the day-long event.
IT'S OFFICIAL!
900' Dawn to Dusk; 2000' with Notification
After years of hard work and negotiations with the FAA culminating in a 4-day-long “Safety Risk Mitigation (SRM)” meeting, we finally have an official Letter of Agreement with the FAA and the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control (SoCal TRACON) granting our airfield a 900’ altitude limit dawn to dusk every day, and a 2000’ altitude limit with 24 hr notice to the FAA and SoCal TRACON. Our club is one of only a handful of RC airfields in the US to receive such an exception.
Find Us
89452 54th Ave., Thermal, CA
Directions
Eastbound on I-10
Turn off on 86 S expressway. Turn left at 52nd Ave., turn right on Fillmore St., turn left on 54th Ave., go past Pierce St. to field entrance.
Westbound on I-10
Exit I-10 at Dillon Rd. left. Proceed to 86 S expressway South. Turn left at 52nd Ave., turn right on Fillmore St., turn left on 54th Ave., go past Pierce St. to field entrance.
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