Tingalpa Model Aero Club Inc

About Corporal Peter Cutler Memorial Trophy

On 11 March 1987, Peter John Cutler, a former member of the Club (1983 – 1986), was killed during an army exercise. He was 29 years of age. At the time of his death he was a member of No. 1 Signal Regiment, stationed at Enoggera Army Base, and was transmitting a message from the enclosed rear compartment of a Landrover when the driver misjudged a turn, and the vehicle rolled upside down into a ditch. The driver and another passenger escaped uninjured.

Peter was, for a number of years, a keen scale modeller and a member of the Wagga Model Aero Club before his posting to Brisbane. To perpetuate his memory his wife Brenda, children Rebecca and Matthew, parents Athol and Marie, and brothers Stephen and Gregory donated trophies to the Wagga and Tingalpa Clubs to be contested in scale competition.

The trophy is awarded for the best scale model at the Club’s Scalefest held in June each year. Only a photo of a proto-typical type and a 3-view are required for documentation but the model must [at the chief Judge’s discretion] fly on the day. The Trophy can only be won by a TMAC member.

Past winners

2022 Adrian Hellwig

2019 - Lorne Austin

2018 - Richard Symes

2017 - Aaron O'Neil

2016 - Richard Symes

2015 - Kenneth Baird

2014 - Lionel Weeks

2013 - Adrian Hellwig

2012 - Lionel Weeks

2011 - Lionel Weeks

2010 - Keith Hayman

2009 - Adrian Hellwig

2008 - Richard Symes

2007 - Lionel Weeks

2006 - Ed Lumsdaine

2005 - Brian Fooks

2004 - Doug McIlwraith

2003 - Doug McIlwraith

2002 - Lionel Weeks

2001 - Dough McIlwraith

2000 - Chris Howarth

1999 - Doug McIlwraith

1998 - Chris Parterson

1997 - Kevin Dodd

1996 - Adrian Hellwig

1995 - Noel Wilson

1994 - Noel Wilson

1993 - Adrian Hellwig

1992 - Ron Cavangh

1991 - Ron Cavangh

1990 - David Gibbs

1989 - David Gibbs

1988 - Ron Cavangh

1987 - Peter Hutton