Advanced
View as:

Current events

13 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 Central Bohemia Cup F3A
Mělník,
CZE
13 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 Nockalmpokal F3F
9543 Arriach,
AUT
13 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 F3K World Cup Walsrode
Walsrode,
GER
13 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 Nakotne Cup F5J 2025
Adazu airfield,
LAT
13 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 Nakotne Cup F3K 2025
Adazu airfield,
LAT

FAI World and continental championships (CAT.1)

20 Jul
-
27 Jul 2025
2025 FAI F1ABP Junior European Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft
Salonta,
ROU
20 Jul
-
27 Jul 2025
2025 FAI F1ABCQ World Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft
Salonta,
ROU
22 Jul
-
26 Jul 2025
2025 FAI F3D / F3E World Championships for Pylon Racing Model Aircraft
Rothenburg,
GER
26 Jul
-
02 Aug 2025
2025 FAI F3K World Championships for Model Gliders
Tarp, Schleswig-Holstein,
GER
02 Aug
-
09 Aug 2025
2025 FAI F3CN World Championships for Model Helicopters
Pitesti,
ROU
07 Aug
-
17 Aug 2025
2025 The World Games
Chengdu,
CHN
09 Aug
-
16 Aug 2025
2025 FAI F3A World Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft
Muncie, IN,
USA
10 Aug
-
15 Aug 2025
2025 FAI F3B World Championship for Model Gliders
Dresden,
GER
11 Aug
-
15 Aug 2025
2025 FAI F1E World Championship for Free Flight Slope Soaring Gliders
Litoměřice,
CZE
23 Aug
-
28 Aug 2025
2025 FAI World Championships for Space Models
Zrenjanin,
SRB

Other FAI-Sanctioned events (CAT.2)

14 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 NORTH MACEDONIA F5J WORLD CUP 2025
Bitola,
MKD
14 Jun
-
2025
2025 Fürstenfeld Pokal F5L
Fürstenfeld,
AUT
14 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 IWCT : International West Coast Tournament - Pre European 2026
Saint Macaire en Mauges,
FRA
14 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 HARGHITA CUP
Cristuru Secuiesc,
ROU
14 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 1. F5J Römerpokal Zülpich
Zulpich,
GER
14 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 Korea Drone Racing World Cup
Seoul city,
KOR
14 Jun
-
15 Jun 2025
2025 3ª World Cup 'ALPE ADRIA'
MORTEGLIANO (UD),
ITA
19 Jun
-
20 Jun 2025
2025 Stanislav Kulacichin Memory World Cup
Shabla,
BUL
20 Jun
-
22 Jun 2025
2025 Open Internacional F3F Cantabria
Punta Ballota, Suances,
ESP
20 Jun
-
21 Jun 2025
2025 Swiss JURA CUP
Ciriè (Torino),
ITA
20 Jun
-
22 Jun 2025
2025 Drone Racing World Cup Hungary
Mogyoród,
HUN
20 Jun
-
22 Jun 2025
2025 Trofeo 'Franco Ballesio'
Cirie, TO,
ITA
21 Jun
-
22 Jun 2025
2025 EAB Thumaide F5B/F Eurotour
Thumaide,
BEL
21 Jun
-
22 Jun 2025
2025 Harghita Cup
Salonta,
ROU
21 Jun
-
22 Jun 2025
2025 Korona Cup
Kiskunfelegyhaza,
HUN
21 Jun
-
22 Jun 2025
2025 2025 World cup "Assen Jordanoff"- Shabla
Shabla,
BUL
22 Jun
-
2025
2025 Carpati Cup
Salonta,
ROU
23 Jun
-
25 Jun 2025
2025 2025 CanAm Cup
Muncie, IN,
USA
26 Jun
-
27 Jun 2025
2025 Lithuania World Cup 2025
Wierzawice,
POL
27 Jun
-
29 Jun 2025
2025 World Cup "Liepaja 2025" in Spacemodelling
Vainode,
LAT

Aeromodelling

The FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM) conducts FAI's aeromodelling and spacemodelling activities, in particular World Records and International Competitions.

Aeromodelling, although it did not yet bear that name, predates “full-size” aviation. The greatest pioneers of human flight, from Cayley, Lilienthal, the Wrights and Levavasseur to Blériot, Ferber, Farman and Messerschmitt, initially used model aircraft to test the solutions they were in the process of designing. This just goes to show how long the history of aeromodelling is. Model aircraft contests were organised as early as 1905, designed as entertaining and accessible sideshows inspired by a gradual emergence of powered aeroplanes.

Aeromodelling swiftly gained popularity from the 1930s onwards. Radio control was not yet highly developed – and was not to be so until the 1950s – so it was almost exclusively free flying and control-line aircraft that were used.

Shortly before the Second World War, the first international competitions were organised in England and Germany.

1955 saw the début of aerobatics in competition. The first world championships were held five years later. Model spacecraft were invented in the early 1960s in the United States and the first world championships were held in 1972.

Aeromodelling today is above all the most significant FAI discipline in terms of numbers of flyers: it has been estimated that there are more than a million enthusiasts all over the world. There are now a great many aeromodelling categories, be it for aeroplanes (extensible engines, piston engine, jet engine, electric and even solarpowered engines), seaplanes, gliders, helicopters and space models.

FAI Aeromodelling Commission

CIAM World Cups