Eastcoast Swamp Flyers RC Inc, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA
- Eastcoast Swamp Flyers RC Inc club information:
- activity: Aircraft
- number of members: 1
- located: Wallingford, Connecticut, USA
The East Coast Swamp Flyers R/C Club, Inc. was founded by a small group of radio controlled aircraft enthusiasts in the late 1960's and now has more than 160 members.
The original club field was in a small clearing behind the TOPS discount store on the Boston Post Road in West Haven, CT.
The "TOPS" field was surrounded by trees and marshland, thus the members referred to themselves as "swamp flyers".
In winter when ice often made the TOPS field inaccessible, the group would fly at the West Haven beach near Chick's Drive In or at the Carrigan Middle School in West Haven.
The TOPS field was lost in the early 1970s when the owner decided to develop the land and, for a short time, the members flew from a small field on State Street in North Haven, CT before moving to our present location behind the Honeywell factory on Route 22 in North Branford, CT.
