John and Tina Schroder's Clover Creek Aerodrome
It was a dream to cultivate a world-class venue and bring Radio Control (RC) Aerobatics enthusiasts together to enjoy a site dedicated to their passion. His vision to found and host a World Aerobatics Championship, attracting the very best from all over the world, has become reality.
In 2007 John finally realized the opportunity to pursue his dream and bring it to fruition. John, and his wife Tina, set out to find the perfect site to transform into a central location for all RC Airplane enthusiasts to visit and enjoy. They discovered a 207 acre Sod Farm in Toone, Tennessee up for grabs and jumped on the opportunity as soon as they saw it. Words cannot describe how beautiful this property really is! John and Tina’s new home is now affectionately known to many as “a slice of RC heaven.”
In the short span of a year, John and Tina settled in, got to work, and transformed their Western Tennessee sod farm into an RCer’s dream ready to host the first Clover Creek Invitational Aerobatic Championship. The inaugural Clover Creek Invitational took place on the first weekend of September, 2008. This event brought together 12 of the best RC Pilots in the world to try and take top honors, and a slice of the $50,000 cash prize! Concurrently, Clover Creek also hosted 40 International Miniature Aerobatic Club (IMAC) pilots in classes from Sportsman through Unlimited. Be sure to check out the full report HERE. At the bottom of this page is from the local news media that had come out and done a fantastic job explaining the reason behind Clover Creek.
In 2010, we had our second event and had even more Invitational Pilots from abroad. We also hosted the IMAC classes as well with pilots coming as far as California, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Lithuania! All the pilots had demonstrated great piloting skills and sportsmanship alike.
We are now ramping up for the 2012 event and have already sent out invitations. We are not going to host the IMAC classes, however we are going to include the Unlimited Class winners from the 2011 US National Championships and the Tucson Arizona Shootout. We also contacted each IMAC Regional Director and had them pick a contest in their region to act as a qualifier to get an invitation to compete with the ‘Top Guns’ of Invitational Class! The winner from the Unlimited Class of those contests will be invited to compete. 2012 will strictly be Invitational only, with no IMAC classes. To see the list of all confirmed pilots to date, click HERE
2010 Clover Creek Unlimited Class Champion Winner: Dan Rathbun
South Central - Prop Nuts Tru-Turn Challenge on May 21, 2011 Winner: Rick Byrd
Southeast - North Georgia IMAC Challenge on June 11th, 2011 Winner: Ty Lyman
US National Championships on June 27-30, 2011 Winner: Brian Sanik
North Central - The Tim Mills Clover Creek Qualifier on July 9, 2011 Winner: Will Berninger
Northwest - Pacific Coast Freestyle Championships on July 28, 2011 Winner: Kevin Miller
Northeast - Black Dirt Regional Championships at the end of September 2011 Winner: Cody Wojcik
Tuscon Arizona Shootout Unlimited Champion on October 5-9, 2011 Winner: Matt Szueber
Tuscon Arizona Shootout Invitational Champion Winner: Jeff Szueber
Southwest - Hemet, California on November 12, 2011 Winner: Matt Stringer
In 2007 John finally realized the opportunity to pursue his dream and bring it to fruition. John, and his wife Tina, set out to find the perfect site to transform into a central location for all RC Airplane enthusiasts to visit and enjoy. They discovered a 207 acre Sod Farm in Toone, Tennessee up for grabs and jumped on the opportunity as soon as they saw it. Words cannot describe how beautiful this property really is! John and Tina’s new home is now affectionately known to many as “a slice of RC heaven.”
In the short span of a year, John and Tina settled in, got to work, and transformed their Western Tennessee sod farm into an RCer’s dream ready to host the first Clover Creek Invitational Aerobatic Championship. The inaugural Clover Creek Invitational took place on the first weekend of September, 2008. This event brought together 12 of the best RC Pilots in the world to try and take top honors, and a slice of the $50,000 cash prize! Concurrently, Clover Creek also hosted 40 International Miniature Aerobatic Club (IMAC) pilots in classes from Sportsman through Unlimited. Be sure to check out the full report HERE. At the bottom of this page is from the local news media that had come out and done a fantastic job explaining the reason behind Clover Creek.
In 2010, we had our second event and had even more Invitational Pilots from abroad. We also hosted the IMAC classes as well with pilots coming as far as California, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Lithuania! All the pilots had demonstrated great piloting skills and sportsmanship alike.
We are now ramping up for the 2012 event and have already sent out invitations. We are not going to host the IMAC classes, however we are going to include the Unlimited Class winners from the 2011 US National Championships and the Tucson Arizona Shootout. We also contacted each IMAC Regional Director and had them pick a contest in their region to act as a qualifier to get an invitation to compete with the ‘Top Guns’ of Invitational Class! The winner from the Unlimited Class of those contests will be invited to compete. 2012 will strictly be Invitational only, with no IMAC classes. To see the list of all confirmed pilots to date, click HERE
2010 Clover Creek Unlimited Class Champion Winner: Dan Rathbun
South Central - Prop Nuts Tru-Turn Challenge on May 21, 2011 Winner: Rick Byrd
Southeast - North Georgia IMAC Challenge on June 11th, 2011 Winner: Ty Lyman
US National Championships on June 27-30, 2011 Winner: Brian Sanik
North Central - The Tim Mills Clover Creek Qualifier on July 9, 2011 Winner: Will Berninger
Northwest - Pacific Coast Freestyle Championships on July 28, 2011 Winner: Kevin Miller
Northeast - Black Dirt Regional Championships at the end of September 2011 Winner: Cody Wojcik
Tuscon Arizona Shootout Unlimited Champion on October 5-9, 2011 Winner: Matt Szueber
Tuscon Arizona Shootout Invitational Champion Winner: Jeff Szueber
Southwest - Hemet, California on November 12, 2011 Winner: Matt Stringer
