Membership – new applications, and renewals

Please Note: to assist with the correct identification of payments, and to avoid delays with the issuing of your membership card, you must identify clearly all payments, and advise the SAMAA office staff, either by e-mail, fax, or hard copy in the post. For new member applications, state your name and NEW (eg. Kipling NEW). For renewals, state your name and membership number (eg. Rudyard 11405). Renewals or applications with obscure references like "Subs", or "Renewal" or "SAMAA" can not be processed.

Subscription rates for 2011 are as follows: (includes full insurance cover).

Members become due for subscriptions 12-months after entry, irrespective of renewal. Late renewals will retain original date of entry (or date of previous renewal).

New member applications:

Send the following minimum details for a database record to be created:

Name and surname (as you wish for it to appear on your membership card)
Postal address and postal code
Date of birth (or ID number)
Contact numbers (home, office, cell, fax)
Name of club that you will be flying at
Interest (eg. Park flying, helicopters, pylon racing, aerobatics, slope soaring, indoor, Sunday flying, etc.)
Confirmation of payment, or cheque, or postal order, etc. Cheques made payable to the SA Model Aircraft Association (avoid the acronym SAMAA).

Membership renewals:

Return your invoice, either by post, or a scanned copy by e-mail, with your payment confirmation, or deposit slip, or cheque, clearly identified with at least your name and membership number (there are probably eight J Botha’s on the database). Please ensure that your latest contact details are supplied.

Post to SAMAA
PO Box 7116
Bonaero Park
1622

Or email

For electronic fund transfers, make a payment to the SAMAA account, held at:
Nedbank
Menlyn Centre branch (Menlyn Pretoria)
Current account number 1605-126-772
Account name SAMAA
Menlyn Bank branch code 1605-45 (sometimes followed by 00)

Fax the payment confirmation or deposit slip to SAMAA, 011-973-3679 or 086-607-8733 with your details as stated above.

Call Bob Skinner, Tel: (011) 973-3679, or 083 283 1681, for membership queries , or send an e-mail (samaa-admin@mweb.co.za)

For those that prefer the official Application Form It is here. Simply fill in the live fields on the MS Word application form, and save a new document. Attach it to your e-mail message.

There's also an on-line application form here on the admin site.