Birthplace of Flight

After their first short flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright returned to their workshop in Dayton, where over the next 18 months they built and tested their flying machine while striving for a fully controllable aircraft. By the end of 1905, their machine could fly twenty miles or more at a time, and Dayton became the starting point of the first airplane, the first airport, and the first permanent flying school.

Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio · United States