The 2027 79th MFNZ Nationals will be held from the 1st to 8th January 2027.

Control Line Events will be held in New Plymouth at the CL Site starting 1st January, through to the 4th January.

All other events will start on the 4th January based around Waipukurau.

Like last year, you will need to book your own accommodation, so get in early for a good spot.

For more information on the next Nationals click here.

And for the latest news be sure to check out the Nats Facebook page, click here.

Results from the 2026 78th Nationals can be found here

At the last Nationals we had some great prizes for early bird entries. A big thanks to HOTRC for their support. We will be doing it again !! Register early to get in the draw, rego opens on the 1st November.

News – 1st October ….

New Nats Management Web System under development … Nats Programme now online !!

The nats team (Frazer) has been busy burning up the nightshift hours building a new Nats website over the last couple of months. No International Aerobatics events this winter, it’s been sleeves up, cutting code on the tractor, while sampling the latest single malt on ice.

Development of the new system is well underway, with untold hours of work so far. The new nats system is a scratch built web app, that lets us manage everything “Nats” related, from the event programme, registration and payment, add / remove your events right up till the event cut off time, through to when the nats is running keeping on top of scores & results, and of course the all important “who was the Champion of Champions ?” … and will Hamilton MAC ever win Champion Club over Model Flying Hawke’s Bay ever again ?

For now you are only able to see the online programme (its sitting on a temporary host for now). This is just the tip of the ice berg to what is going to be released as we get closer to the nats.

Click here for the online programme.

The online programme is similar to the events management plug in we used previously, only now it’s better because it’s been built from scratch, like a finely tuned F3A model.

Frazer’s challenge to you … try and break it !! A chocolate fish will be headed your way if you find a bug / or suggest a good improvement, this thing has been through a lot of testing, but we need people to test it out.

Use the filters and search tools to find “just your stuff”. Click the “More Info” link to see all the details, including related CD / SIG contact details.

Filter by a SIG or two, and try the Calendar view in Day / Week mode to see what’s on and when.

It will run on multiple platforms, desktop, tablet, mobile phone etc.

Check out the cool new “My Events” feature that lets you build up a favorites list of just the events you are interested in. You can print off just your favorites list. Plus you will see if other like minded modellers have  also “liked” an event, and when you go to register, if you have added events to your favourites list, the system will carry those events through to registration for you. Nice !!

As we have done in the past, you can click the location links to get details of where the flying sites are, and a GPS link that will let your phone take you to the field using your prefered mapping app. BTW – Some of those links are still from last years nats, and they will be updated when sites are confirmed closer to the time. (Free Flight your field right now is correct, its close to all the action, Rob Wallace has it sorted)

And for the luddites out there, there is an “Old School 1990’s” version of the programme that you can print off and stash in your field kit / on the dash of your 1970’s holden kingwood. Obviously if you print it off, and we tweak some events, you won’t see those on your bit of paper, but even I will admit, the “rocky” version is very quick and easy to look at. Look for the “View Classic Version (PDF)” link up the top.

Registration opens 1st November … watch this space !!

 

The MFNZ nationals are held every year to allow MFNZ members to compete against each other in various disciplines at a nationals level. Typically they are held in early January each year to take advantage of the long summer days and the end of the Christmas/New Year holidays. Usually competitors number between 110 to 150 and come from all areas of New Zealand… and sometimes overseas. There are a number of trophies that competitors compete for and there are champions for the various disciplines and then the champion of champions.
The nationals require a lot of organisation as there are normally around 90 events which are flown over 5 or 6 flying fields, over 5 days. Each event can have from 3 to 30 entries so it’s quite a bit of work to get them to run smoothly.
All MFNZ members are welcome to come and even compete, even if you haven’t been before, it’s a great experience.