I can tell you from first hand experience that the feds are being A joles over models. Our club was kicked out of an airport that we have been flying at for 25 years. The airport manager fought for us right up to the point that the feds pulled hte purse strings and siad no more federal funding to the airport if we were allowed to stay. As persident of the club, I have been fighting it tooth and nail for coming up on a year now and to no avail. The fed that is being a D*^& head will not budge and from what I have been told he does not have to.
His Position on the matter is that we are not an aeronautical entity therefore we have no business at the airport. I have talked to Wes at AMA and he also backs it up; that there is NOTHING written that we cant be there, BUT there is also nothing written that we CAN be there. In the past the airport operator had a little say so as to what went on at the airport, but now if they are receiveing federal funding, it is all up to the local fed in charge as to what is allowed......