Central Airways’ Bob Wong and His Connection to #7 EFTS, Windsor, Ontario.

Bob Wong trained pilots at Elementary Flying Traning School No. 7 here in Windsor Ontario as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) during WW II. Bob Wong also founded Central Airways in Toronto, which became one of the largest flying schools in Canada.

That is where I met Bob Wong.

A huge sign in the late 1960s visible from the Gardner Expressway, offered introductory flights for $5. I took one of those flights, and it started my flying career spanning over 35 years and logging over 17000 hours, visiting many continents on our beautiful planet. I retired when I was 70 years old. and later joined the Canadian Aviation Museum in Windsor as a volunteer. In the archives, I found Bob Wong’s name, the man who helped me to have a rewarding career being a pilot.

Bob’s inspriational story can be found here: Robert Shun Wong

As teenagers Bob and his brother Tommy built an actual airplane (a 1928 design for amateur builders called a PIETENPOL). The story of the their 1935 build and how these 2 teenager’s airplane finally gets unveiled to family decades later in Ontario can be found here: Apartment in Vancouver to a Storage Container near Saskatoonear-2 teenagers airplane