Go Guillow’s!

Happy New Year – and what a year it’s going to be for us model airplane enthusiasts!

Three cheers for traditional stick & tissue modeling!

January 11 Indoor Flying in Georgetown, MA

Yep, 2026 is off to a flying start.  Say boo to bad weather and fly indoors.  If you missed the Jan 4 contest at Glastonbury HS in CT, we’re flying again this Sunday Jan 11 at the Penn Brook school in Georgetown, MA.  You’ve been building away over the holidays and here’s your chance to get some airtime.  

The Event Flyer has all of the details including directions to the gym and key contacts.

Guillow’s at the 2026 FAC NATS

 What, you haven’t heard the news?!  Well, join our parent org, the national Flying Aces Club, and get with the program.  Their bi-monthly hardcopy newsletter brings you all the best in the stick & tissue modeling world including several full-size building plans in every issue.  Sign up at flyingacesclub.com!

If you’re a modeler, you likely know about Guillow’s.  But did you know it’s the oldest continuously operating model airplane company in the world?  And sure, puff your chest out a bit because Guillow’s is located right here in Wakefield, MA!

Stealth Squadroneers love Guillow’s models.  We usually have a handful of Guillow’s models flying at our meets and they win competition events too!

 We’ve hosted the family fun “Flying Aces Take Flight” event with Guillow’s at the Spencer Peirce Little Farm in Newbury, MA the past two summers and it’s scheduled again for 2026.

So hear ye, hear ye local modelers – here’s your chance to “go national” and fly your Guillow’s model in free flight with like-minded folks from around the country and beyond.  Join your fellow Stealth Squadroneers – the Guillow’s Home Team – in beautiful Geneseo, New York this coming July.

The FAC will recognize Guillow’s models flown in each of their NATS competition events and there will be a fun “mass launch” of all Guillow’s models as part of the Guillow’s 100th Anniversary celebration.  Models should be built right out of the Guillow’s kit box using the kit wood (die cut or laser cut) and plastic parts.  The model may be lightened by sanding and/or reducing the width of the sheetwood parts.  More guidance will be posted here soon.  Stay tuned. 

In the meantime, check out the pictures in the sidebar to see how some clubsters are already building their Guillow’s models.  It’ll be fun to chat it up with your fellow modelers at the indoor flying meets and find out who’s building what and how they’re doing it.

See you in the gym skyster!