MODELER OF THE YEAR AWARDS
During November of each calendar year, previous recipients that are in good standing with current Valley Flyers membership. Nominate and vote on who they think should be selected as the Modeler of the Year. This process was originally, the Reed Packard award. Reed was the club photographer for the club's newsletter cover, starting 1972 through December 1985. The award was renamed in November of 2016 to the Willie Gardner award. Willie was the Valley Flyers and Glendale Field manager though 2014.
Reed Packard Award
| 1983 |
Marv Zasuss |
| 1984 |
Phil Mosko |
| 1985 |
Vic Martin |
| 1986 |
Pat Banner |
| 1987 |
Art Pelka |
| 1988 |
Willie Gardner |
| 1989 |
Rick Cincis |
| 1990 |
Peter Mahony |
| 1991 |
Marc Brodnax |
| 1992 |
Harold Milhauser |
| 1993 |
Dale Utterback |
| 1994 |
Don Arvensen |
| 1995 |
Bob Smith |
| 1996 |
Don Goeshel |
| 1997 |
Dave Hendrex |
| 1998 |
Ron Nelson |
| 1999 |
Ricc Bieber |
| 2000 |
Harvey Elmes |
| 2001 |
Berry Leavengood |
| 2002 |
George Finch |
| 2003 |
Sam Gengo |
| 2004 |
Gary Stevens |
| 2005 |
Bob Adams |
| 2006 |
Jason Pakfar |
| 2007 |
Dave Sweany |
| 2008 |
Chuck Thompson |
| 2009 |
Benny Elkouby |
| 2010 |
Cliff Sonnentag |
| 2011 |
Bob Tarlau |
| 2012 |
Dan Ziliak |
| 2013 |
Rand Mytar |
| 2014 |
Ted Mayer |
| 2015 |
Glen Roe |
Willie Gardner Award
| 2016 |
Michael Stoner |
| 2017 |
Jason Mansfield |
| 2018 |
Tony Aguila |
| 2019 |
Tony Naccarato |
| 2020 |
Tony Di Leo |
| 2021 |
Mario Sweet |
| 2022 |
Scott Ramos |
| 2023 |
Rahr Borcherdt |