About Us

Guillow’s has been imprinting its fun balsa wood gliders with customer’s logos and sales messages since early 1936. We have helped companies advertise on our toy glider wings, have their message ‘explore new heights’ and their sales ‘take off’. Hundreds of thousands of our ‘flying messenger’ promotional planes have flown at trade shows, company picnics, parades, etc… over the years and made an impression on all who saw them streak through the sky. A pretty good place to put YOUR advertising message, right?

Times may change (too fast at times) but simple, good ideas stay around and Guillow gliders are one of them. We continue to manufacture these inexpensive gliders today and can put your colorful message onto our easy to assemble and fun to fly gliders. Balsa wood gliders are cost conscious, fun, and a unique promotional idea that brings back nostalgic memories that put a smile on the face of its ‘pilot’.

Our balsa gliders are sold exclusively through promotional products distributors, if you are a distributor please contact us and give GuillowGliders a try with YOUR customers and if you are an end user that thinks they would like to have some fun getting their message out to customers … look up and contact a promotional products distributor near you and they will be happy to help you order some gliders.

GuillowGliders is a subsidiary of Paul K. Guillow, Inc. Guillow’s started back in 1926 and has been proudly manufacturing balsa wood model airplane hobby construction kits and flying toy gliders IN THE USA ever since. For 100 years … most everyone remembers the shiny red propellers and flying toy balsa planes across their back yards as a child. Our retail company website is www.guillow.com where you can see all our fun flying products. And if you would like to read a short history of the company it can be found at http://www.guillow.com/aboutus.aspx.