Great War Flying Museum

The Great War Flying Museum, operated by the Ontario Aviation Historical Society, is a not-for-profit volunteer member organization and is registered and authorized to issue tax receipts to all donors. The GWFM was founded in 1970 by a group of Brampton Flying Club members. All of the founders were pilot’s mostly private pilots and several airline pilots. We don’t know exactly why these gentlemen dedicated themselves to such a large and serious task except to say that they all absolutely loved aeroplanes. The first aircraft was purchased from a well known amateur aircraft builder, Mr. Gogi Goguillot who lived in Langley, BC. This was a 0.85 scale British SE 5A. It was dismantled and shipped to us by truck. We still fly this aircraft. It is very popular and is the first challenge for each new pilot as they come on-stream. This is the only aircraft which is not full scale. All subsequent replicas are full scale and built from original blue prints in our hangar.