Dinneen Field

The WMAA Club field is operated under an agreement with the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The Westerville Model Aeronautics Association has provided ALL of the money and resources for the planning, construction, maintenance and operation of the radio controlled model flying site. No tax dollars have been used for this facility.

Dinneen Field is located just north of Columbus 10 minutes off of Interstate 71. The street address for the field on Africa Road doesn't work on many mapping sites, so the GPS coordinates are - Latitude N 40.185365 - Longitude W -82.953837.

Good News!  72Mhz Channels 20 (72.190) and 21 (72.210) have been tested to be OK to use, now that local TV broadcasters have switched to digital transmission.

See our Field Weather page for current conditions.  Note that the field itself is oriented west-southwest to east-northeast (see below), and winds in Ohio are generally from the west-southwest.  That means that you'll regularly have a direct headwind or quartering headwind taking off and landing to the west-southwest.  However, we often also see the Alum Creek reservoir (located just to our northwest) creating northerly "burbles" just at the height of the ridgeline, so what you experience on the ground may be a little different from what's a couple hundred feet up (or a mile away at a reporting station).  Pilots of very light trainers, foamies and other park flyers will want to be particularly mindful about this phenomenon and watch for winds that may want to blow their aircraft close to the flight line.

The Google Map below can be scrolled, zoomed and queried for directions: