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In 1992, President George H. W. Bush signed the bill which created the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park into law. [3] In addition to the Wright brothers' sites, the new park also preserved the home of Paul Laurence Dunbar, an acclaimed African-American poet and friend of the Wright brothers. [4]
Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park.The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots.
Other cooperating organizations include the aviation archives of Wright State University, Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, the Greene County Historical Society and local visitor centers. [ 2 ] The National Aviation Heritage Area was authorized in 2004 [ 3 ] and is administered by the National Aviation Heritage Alliance.
The brothers set up the Wright School of Aviation on Huffman Prairie to train America's earliest military pilots. — 1909: ... Sep. 16—The Dayton area has a deep history in connection to flight ...
Located in Oakwood, Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright intended for it to be their joint home, but Wilbur died in 1912, before the home's 1914 completion. The brothers hired the prominent Dayton architectural firm of Schenck and Williams to realize their plans. Orville and his father Milton and sister Katharine occupied the home in 1914.
The John W. Berry Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center houses the 1905 Wright Flyer III, the world's first practical airplane. The airplane, a unit of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park , was restored from 1948 to 1950 with the initial consultation of Orville Wright before his 1948 death.