Rebel Flying Club:
Location: Ash Island, Hexham, Newcastle, Australia.
Directions: To the right is a map to show you where our flying field is located. To get to our flying field you have to cross a bridge over to Ash Island, which is approx. 100m East (heading towards Newcastle) of the Mcdonalds turn off. Follow this road around to the right. Continue to the end, turn left, then continue down this road for approx. 300 to 400m and you will See our field on the right hand side.
Club Rules: Download and read our rules.
Meetings: Club meetings are held upstairs, at the Hexham Bowling Club on the second Monday of every even month. To get to the Hexham Bowling Club pass the turn off to Ash island and continue along Maitland road (West) towards Maitland . The club is located 2 minutes past the turn off to Ash island.
Disciplines: We have approx 100 members on the books, with varying interests in aeromodelling ranging from Free Flight, Old-timer, Gliding, Electric (growing exponentially), Scale and Sport Models.
Visitors to the Hunter region: I would recommend visitors to our club and the Hunter to look at Hunter Tourism for some information about our area.
Flying Information:
The Rebel Flying Club has qualified flying instructors, to teach new & potential members, how to fly their models without doing damage to their pride and joy (models that is). We also have 3 inspectors, to certify models over 7 kilograms (Kg's) for flight.
Flying times.
The following times came into force and must be strictly adhered to, or we risk having more restricted operating times imposed on us, or the total loss of the field to power models. The new times are as follows:
- 7 days a week: 6am to 9pm
- Third Sunday of the month: No IC engines from 8.30am till 1.30pm
