The Great War Flying Museum

The Great War Flying Museum The museum where the exhibits take flight! We are a World War One museum at Brampton Caledon Airport.

06/01/2026

On Sunday, our pilots performed a “missing woman” formation to honour and remember a dear departed member of our museum family.

Sound ⬆️

05/27/2026

Visitor notice: the museum will be closed all day Sunday, 31 May for a private event.

05/24/2026

110 years ago (on May 30th), Eddie Rickenbacker raced in his last of four Indy 500 races. One year later, he sailed to Europe to join the US Army, and just under a year after that was piloting fighter aircraft. On May 30th 1918 he scored his sixth aerial victory. He finished the war with 26, making him the highest-scoring American ace of the war.

Our Nieuport 28 is painted to match the aircraft flown by Rickenbacker for those first six aerial victories.

The newest addition to our museum collection has come with an unexpected personal touch.The artefact is a rare gift tin ...
05/23/2026

The newest addition to our museum collection has come with an unexpected personal touch.

The artefact is a rare gift tin from Princess Mary’s Christmas fund initiative of 1914. These were given to members of the British Empire’s armed forces. Inside the tin, tucked underneath some of its original contents, we discovered a small envelope.

Inside the envelope, a century-old, 40-word note from the original owner to his parents.

What does the note say?

Visit the Great War Flying Museum to find out.
(The note doesn’t say that)

05/18/2026

Our museum’s newest member going for a Victoria Day weekend flight in the observer’s seat of our Sopwith 1½ Strutter.

Queen Victoria famously tried to help build alliances and promote peace in Europe by marrying her children into the roya...
05/17/2026

Queen Victoria famously tried to help build alliances and promote peace in Europe by marrying her children into the royal and aristocratic families across the continent.

It worked... until it didn’t.

Two of Queen Victoria’s grandsons were on the thrones of the United Kingdom and Germany when those two nations went to war against each other in 1914. One of them, King George V, oversaw the firing of a rail gun during the Hundred Days Offensive toward the end of the war.

Two of her great-grandsons, princes Edward and Albert (the future kings Edward VIII and George VI), served in the British Army and Royal Navy, respectively. Prince Albert saw action at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, before transferring to the Royal Air Force in 1918.

World War One abruptly ended the era of inter-connected European monarchies.

05/16/2026

A Saturday Soundtrack for opening day at The Great War Flying Museum:

Roses of Picardy (1916) is one of the most famous songs of World War One. Picardy is a region in France, one which saw some of the most brutal fighting of the war, including the battle of the Somme. The song has been recorded many times since, by names such as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and John McDermott. Two classic recordings are those by Lambert Murphy (1917) and John Pike (1918). Who sang it best?

Murphy: https://zurl.co/kG0dd

Pike: https://zurl.co/rIRuR

05/09/2026

We're just a week away from the museum opening for the season! Hoping for flying weather Victoria Day weekend. See you at Brampton Caledon Airport!

Two weeks until opening day....See you at Brampton Caledon Airport on Victoria Day weekend! ...
05/02/2026

Two weeks until opening day....

See you at Brampton Caledon Airport on Victoria Day weekend!

Address

13691 McLaughlin Road
Caledon, ON
L7C3L7

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 3pm
Thursday 11am - 3pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm

Telephone

19058384936

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