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The Moose Jaw Radio Model Airplane Control Club was first started by Len Trieber in 1968. Len owned and operated The Hobby Centre in down town Moose Jaw.

I joined up with Len in 1968 and the original flying area was located on city owned property right where the Bonanza Restaurant is located today. At the time that area was an old horse pasture fenced off with barbed wire extending north as far as where the car dealership is located today. And, oh yes, there were horses running loose in the pasture, so we had a gate to the entrance at the south west corner of the pasture and had to open the gate to gain entrance and then close it again after we drove into the pasture so that the horses wouldn’t get out. I must say the horses were very accommodating to the fliers and always stayed as far north from the flying area as possible. Whether it was from the noise of the engines that they didn’t like, or that they just liked to watch the planes flying from a distance!
 

We were evicted from that area in 1972 as the city opened the area for commercial development.
 

Len Trieber was instrumental in negotiating with the city to acquire the present location of the Moose Jaw Radio Model Airplane Club on Hamilton Flats. This area was another horse pasture and required many hours of preparation to turn it into a respectable flying area as it was all gopher holes and huge bumps among tall grass.

At this time in my life, I still owned a diesel farm tractor, so Len rented a pull type road grader and we attached it to my tractor and spent many hours levelling the ground to make a take-off and landing area. At first the levelled off area was just a dusty piece of prairie and eventually was seeded to grass with a sprinkler system installed.
 

As the Club membership increased, more renovations were added to the area with trees being planted to the south of the flying area.

In spring 1974, Moose Jaw had to deal with a flood that completely covered Hamilton Flats. The area was declared a flood area and assigned as a sports area only. That’s when the ball diamonds developed east of our flying area, which is what it is today!