Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park & Aviation Trail Parachute Museum

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Location

16 S Williams St.
Dayton, OH 45402

Phone Number

937-345-0433

Make your first stop the National Park Service Visitor Center.

Celebrate the development of manned, heavier-than-air flight by exploring exhibits dedicated to every phase of the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Uncover their childhood to their careers as businessmen with their printing and bicycle shops, through to their accomplishments as aviation pioneers.

Like any other national park in the country, it’s the people, the places, and the stories which form the heart and soul of each park and tell us more about who we are as Americans. Here you’ll find an evolving story of two ingenious brothers and one of America’s greatest African-American poets.

In the same building is the Aviation Trail Parachute Museum featuring artifacts from the parachute collection of Dave Gold. You’ll see equipment from the U. S. Army’s Parachute Test Branch from the predecessors to what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The test branch worked on parachute development and is where the first manually operated parachute jump and first freefall parachute jump from a disabled aircraft occurred.

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