Written by Don DeLoach.
Fly the rubber-powered STOL utility aircraft
Read an abridged summary and see bonus photos.
Featured in the October 2013 issue of Model Aviation.
A name familiar with balsa model lovers for generations, the Guillow’s company has been making kits in Wakefield, Massachusetts for more than 80 years, dating back to 1926.
Little has changed at Guillow’s in those years. Their kits have always been (and continue to be) balsa and tissue, just like the Guillow’s kits the kids of Depression era experienced. Plastic propellers and vacuumed formed…