Long's Hobby Supply

Built in 1957, here's radio control plane #6. An original design by Roy Long, Jr. Powered by an OK "Cub" twin-cylinder gasoline engine and controlled via a "Citizen Ship" transmitter and receiver. In the eighties the engine was updated to an OS 90 four-cycle gasoline engine and the radio to a solid-state Kraft system. This in-flight photo was taken in 1983 just before landing. Today the plane still looks almost identical to this photo, and it is the oldest surviving plane from a fleet of 40 r/c planes built by my father.

The Babcock "Breezy Sr" model airplane. This model was built in 1959, and was the 11th radio control plane built Roy Long, Jr. Photo taken in July of 1966.

Original film from the 1940's.

Original film from the 1940's of flying free-flight models at the Dixon Field (modern day Rec Park) in Lewistown, PA.

Great history about the early beginnings of Radio Control planes and the Brown Junior engines. Does anyone remember Bill Brown?

Here's the front and the back of a photo from June of 1947, when the shop was located at the rear of 94 Logan Street. Pictured are Bill Long, "Shorty" Wedlake, and Bill Renninger

Vintage rubber stamp logo on an old tube of balsa wood.

Found online, a Citizen-Ship radio sold at Long's Hobby Supply in the early 1960's https://www.worthpoint.com//vintage-citizen-ship-rc-airpla