Robert and Tommy Wongs family to see CF-BAA in Guelph, Ont. [Video]

Decades after soaring through Vancouver’s skies, spending years in a storage container in Saskatoon, and finally being restored in Ontario, a plane built by hand by two teenagers at the height of the Great Depression will be unveiled to their family for the first time.

Robert Wong and his younger brother Thomas “Tommy” Wong were two of 12 children. Their family originally lived in Nanaimo, B.C., with their father working as a coal miner before they moved to Vancouver, living in Market Alley, where dozens of Chinese labourers lived at the time.

As a child, Robert loved to build model airplanes. When he saw an article in Modern Mechanics detailing how to craft a Pietenpol Sky Scout – a single-seater, wood-and-fabric plane powered by a Model T Ford engine – he sought to construct it himself.

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“This was 1935. We’re pretty sure he saw this article with the plans, and he said, ‘Oh, it’s just …