West Baden, AMA’s Eighth Historical National Heritage Site

President’s Perspective By Rich Hanson, AMA President | richh@modelaircraft.org As seen in the August 2022 issue of Model Aviation. On January 22, 2022, the AMA Executive Council unanimously approved the West Baden Springs Hotel in French Lick, Indiana, as an addition to AMA’s National Aeromodeling Heritage Program. On Sunday, March 27, 2022, the hotel was dedicated as an official Aeromodeling Historical Site in a ceremony conducted during the third annual Jim Richmond Open, a Category III Free Flight (FF) contest. I presented a declaration certificate to the West Baden…