"If modelers want to keep fields, then they need to go out and BUY, DEVELOP, and maintain their fields. To depend on others to fund their recreation is pure folly. In this society which we live in, depending on others is going to be a thing of the past in the not too distant future. Get a 100 guys together, each pitch in 2-5 thousand, form a IRC 501 (c) (7) corporation and you have a start in setting up a facility. You may have some older types with a lot of money to invest long long term (recent retirees with big payouts into IRAs are good) and they can finance a sizable amount of land for your Club, Inc. (Sterling Trust, Waco TX is a specialist in IRA real estate investing.) "

Isn't noise it is Profit and $$. If you don't own the land you can't fly. Population growth is causing fields to close. We lost ours and now it is a 50 mile drive to fly. BUY your Field when you have the opportunity. If I can find the land I will buy it and build a home, then flying field. But I haven't found the land yet. Best of luck. Jim