We're an American WWII Heritage City!

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Montgomery County (Dayton), Ohio is a designated WWII Heritage City. Click to learn more about our designation!

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We're an American WWII Heritage City!

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See the most famous WWII bomber, the Memphis Belle, in person at the Air Force Museum. Credit: U.S. Air Force

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We're an American WWII Heritage City!

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Explore a Navy WAVES cabin, at Carillon Historical Park, that was used to work on the top-secret Dayton Codebreaking Project, an effort aimed at cracking Nazi Germany’s Enigma Code.

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We're an American WWII Heritage City!

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Study photographs, documents, and more at the Wright State University's Wright Archives about the Wright Company Factory and its role in WWII.

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We're an American WWII Heritage City!

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Visit the nation's first Atomic Energy Commission site constructed after WWII that produced the trigger for the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project in Dayton, Ohio.

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About the National Aviation Heritage Area

The National Aviation Heritage Area is guided by the National Aviation Heritage Alliance, a private, not for profit corporation designated by Congress as the management entity of the heritage area. The organization seeks to conserve, interpret, develop, and promote the historic resources of the National Aviation Heritage Area.

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Heritage Area Sites

1

Wright Dunbar Neighborhood

7 Hawthorn St.
Dayton, OH 45402 Learn More

2

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park & Aviation Trail Parachute Museum

16 S Williams St.
Dayton, OH 45402 Learn More

3

Champaign Aviation Museum

1652 N Main St
Urbana, OH 43078 Learn More

4

Huffman Prairie Flying Field & Interpretive Center

2380 Memorial Rd
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 Learn More

5

Carillon Historical Park

1000 Carillon Blvd.
Dayton, OH 45409 Learn More

6

Wright “B” Flyer

10550 N Springboro Pike
Miamisburg, OH 45342 Learn More

7

Wright State University Wright Archives

3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton, OH 45435 Learn More

8

Woodland Cemetery & Arboretum

118 Woodland Ave
Dayton, OH 45409 Learn More

9

National Museum of the United States Air Force

1100 Spaatz St.
Dayton, OH 45431 Learn More

10

Historic WACO Field

1865 S Co Rd 25A
Troy, OH 45373 Learn More

11

Grimes Flying Lab

1652 N Main St
Urbana, OH 43078 Learn More

12

Armstrong Air & Space Museum

500 Apollo Drive, PO Box 1978
Wapakoneta, OH 45895 Learn More

13

National Aviation Hall of Fame

1100 Spaatz St.
Dayton, OH 45431 Learn More

14

Mid America Flight Museum North – Restoration Hangar

1636 N Main St
Urbana, OH 43078 Learn More

15

Airstream Heritage Center

1001 W. Pike St.
Jackson Center, OH 45334 Learn More

Recent Stories

Published on September 27, 2024

Hangar Y & Huffman Prairie

Two sites that changed the world of aviation. Aviation history is rooted in remarkable places where visionaries pushed the boundaries of what was possible. From the bustling Wright Cycle Company Shop, full of tools, schematics, and plans for a flying machine, to the tall, sweeping sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers took […]

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Published on June 20, 2024

The First Aerial Circumnavigation

100 years since the first successful trip around the world. In 1924, a few decades before the Space Race of the Cold War, a lesser-known global aeronautical competition took place. After countless innovations in the field of aviation in the years following the Wright Brothers’ first flight, nations around the world had wholeheartedly embraced flying […]

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