Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

July 23, 2025

There are several locations that belong to this park around Dayton, Ohio. They are all part of Wilbur and Orville Wright’s history with flight. I visited the Wright Cycle company building where the brothers owned a bicycle business and next door is the Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center. This has the entire history of the family, the gliders they built and the first powered airplane. It also includes history on Paul Dunbar who was a famous local poet during the same time period and a parachute museum dedicated to the history of the parachute. The Huffman Flying Field and Interpretive Center are on the Wright Patterson Air Force base however, it is designed so the public can access both of these without going through military gates. The interpretive center was supposed to be open today, but it was closed. I walked to the memorial and around the original field that they used for test flights (Kitty Hawk was just too far away) and then set up the first flying school for pilots. It would have been a nice walk without the constant shot gun blasts from the gun club next door.