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23 Jun
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25 Jun 2025
2025 2025 CanAm Cup
Muncie, IN,
USA

FAI World and continental championships (CAT.1)

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

Other FAI-Sanctioned events (CAT.2)

26 Jun
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27 Jun 2025
2025 Lithuania World Cup 2025
Wierzawice,
POL
27 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 World Cup "Liepaja 2025" in Spacemodelling
Vainode,
LAT
27 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 North of England Open (Eurotour/World Cup)
Pickering,
GBR
28 Jun
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2025
2025 Swedish Cup
Mysinge Hög,
SWE
28 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 Interglide
Ashford, Kent,
GBR
28 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 EHS FRANCE
Flottemanville-Hague,
FRA
28 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 Södertälje World Cup
Sodertalje,
SWE
28 Jun
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2025
2025 Popa Crangu Memorial
Rupea,
ROU
28 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 11th F3A Lowland Cup
Oss,
NED
28 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 31st F2 POLAND WORLD CUP Wierzawice 2025 Memorial of Eugeniusz Kujan
Wierzawice,
POL
28 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 23. F3K Fizir Cup
Ludbreg,
CRO
28 Jun
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29 Jun 2025
2025 Slovenia F3L CUP
Cerkvenjak,
SLO
29 Jun
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2025
2025 Alvaret Cup
Mysinge Hög,
SWE
29 Jun
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2025
2025 Rupea World Cup
Rupea,
ROU
30 Jun
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01 Jul 2025
2025 Tagliafico Open
Moscow, ID,
USA
02 Jul
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04 Jul 2025
2025 Canada World Cup
Moscow, ID,
USA
04 Jul
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06 Jul 2025
2025 F5J Chomutov, Memorial of Stanislav Perkovic
Chomutov,
CZE
05 Jul
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2025
2025 Prešov INDOOR '25
Prešov,
SVK
05 Jul
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06 Jul 2025
2025 F3A World Cup Liechtenstein / 57. Internationales Freundschaftsfliegen
Eschen-Bendern,
LIE
05 Jul
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06 Jul 2025
2025 Loire Valley trophy F5J
Brain-sur-L'Authion,
FRA

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