Click here to read a transcript of a 2008 oral history of Bill Young.

Welcome to Bill Young Designs, the online home of veteran modeler and designer Bill Young. Bill has over sixty years’ experience in model aircraft, boats, cars, trains, and rockets.

Bill was a pioneering model boat designer and racer and served as President of the Western Association of Model Boaters during the late 1960’s. In that capacity. he was instrumental in founding the North American Model Boat Association (NAMBA) in 1970. From 1982-1994, Bill served as a volunteer historian for the Northrop N9M-B Restoration Project at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California; his article on the N9M, co-authored with Gerald Balzer, was published in the 1994 American Aviation Historical Society Journal. Bill wrote a monthly column titled “Electric Scale” in Scale R/C Modeler from 1988-1996.  He has also been published in many other model airplane magazines including Model Builder, Flying Models, and R/C Modeler. From 1996-2007, Bill was the proprietor of Bill Young Designs and Hobbies, a full-service hobby shop in Flagstaff, AZ. He is also a sought-after electronics designer and inventor with many original designs of electronic model aircraft devices to his credit.

Over the years, Bill has authored and/or collected scale model plans, photographs, and manuals for a variety of rare and specialized aircraft. Many of these historic materials cannot be obtained anywhere else, and Bill’s original plans or manuals are in many cases the only ones available. Now, for the first time, Bill’s designs, publications, and model airplane devices are available for purchase in a single online location.

We encourage you to look through the complete online catalog of Bill’s publications and electronic devices. If you’d like to place an order, please mail Bill a check along with a completed copy of the order form. If you’re interested in Bill’s life story, please read his oral history. For more information, please feel free to contact Bill via e-mail.

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