Air Camp
Air Camp offers immersive, week-long resident camps, day camps and teacher camps in aviation and aeronautics, designed to inspire young people to pursue STEM-related education and careers in the context of aviation.
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Discover the region by checking out our Heritage Area Sites
Armstrong Air & Space Museum
Celebrate the accomplishments of the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, a native son of Wapakoneta… and explore aviation and aerospace history.
Learn MoreCenterPoint Energy Dayton Air Show Summer Event
The CenterPoint Energy Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger is one of North America’s premier air shows. The annual show at Dayton International Airport has featured the world’s top performers and exhibition teams, including the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.
Learn MoreChampaign Aviation Museum
At the Champaign Aviation Museum, you’ll get a close-up look at historic aircraft that soared to great heights to preserve freedom. More than stationary museum pieces, these warbirds have been, or are being, restored to fly again.
Learn MoreDayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park & Aviation Trail Parachute Museum
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.
Learn MoreWright Cycle Company, National Park Service
The fourth location of the bicycle shop operated by the Wrights remains as testament to their bicycle business. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990 and today, you can cycle to it via your own bicycle or one you rent from the city’s bike share program.
Learn MoreHuffman Prairie Flying Field & Interpretive Center
See the place where Orville and Wilbur Wright developed and tested the world’s first practical airplane, and the memorial built to honor their lives and achievements, at Huffman Prairie.
Learn MorePaul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial
Visit the house that Dunbar purchased for his mother Matilda in 1904. After her death in 1936, the state of Ohio designated the property as the first house museum commemorating an African American.
Learn MoreWright Company Factory (TBD)
The Wright Company Factory was the first in America built for the purpose of manufacturing airplanes. This site is closed to the public.
Learn MoreCarillon Historical Park
Carillon Historical Park engages you to sample Dayton’s rich heritage of creativity and invention. Founded by Colonel Edward and Edith Deeds, the park is situated on a beautiful 65-acre campus between the Great Miami River and a glacial moraine.
Learn MoreHawthorn Hill
Hawthorn Hill is Orville Wright’s success mansion. You can join the ranks of Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison as visitors to the world’s first pilot’s last home. Tours are available on a limited basis and begin at Carillon Historical Park. Advance pre-paid admission is required.
Learn MoreGrimes Flying Lab
Shed new light on your appreciation for aircraft lighting and learn more about the man who was dedicated to making flight safer at night by visiting the Grimes Flying Laboratory museum.
Learn MoreNational Aviation Hall of Fame
Meet the heroes and heroines of aviation and space travel at the National Aviation Hall of Fame. You’ll experience interactive displays that give you hands-on experience in landing an aircraft on a Navy carrier, controlling the movement of a helicopter, docking in space with the Hubble Space Telescope, and taking the controls of an historic aircraft on one of four flight simulators.
Learn MoreNational Museum of the United States Air Force
Get a sweeping view of Air Force and military aviation progress at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, the world’s largest and oldest military aviation museum. You’ll discover more than 360 aircraft and aerospace vehicles on display, many rare and one-of-a-kind. In addition, you’ll find thousands of historical aviation artifacts.
Learn MoreTriumph of Flight (Future Site)
The Wright Image Group is a nonprofit dedicated to achieving a bold vision: a magnificent new national monument to flight, the Triumph of Flight, itself an engineering marvel, commemorating the many phenomenal achievements in aviation and aerospace.
Learn MoreWACO Education Center & Air Museum
The WACO Education Center & Air Museum continues to celebrate the Golden Age of Aviation with numerous aircraft and a 2,400 foot grass airstrip (1WF). You can experience an open cockpit flight on one of two flying aircraft.
Learn MoreWoodland Cemetery & Arboretum
Founded in 1841, Woodland Cemetery is one of the nation’s oldest rural garden cemeteries and a unique cultural, botanical and educational resource. The Arboretum has been accredited as a Level II Arboretum by The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and is recognized as an accredited arboretum in the Morton Register of Arboreta, a database of the world’s arboreta and gardens dedicated to woody plants.
Learn MoreWright “B” Flyer
You can experience the thrill of pioneer flight with a ride in the Wright “B” Flyer, a modern lookalike of the Wright brothers’ first production airplane!
Learn MoreWright Dunbar Neighborhood
Here in West Dayton, the Wright brothers built bicycles and talked enthusiastically around the dinner table about how to develop a flying machine. In his last years, Orville still came to the neighborhood to work in his laboratory. Through these three locations, visit the family history of the Wrights from ideation of the airplane through to the world's first pilot's last years.
Learn MoreWright State University Wright Archives
The Wright Brothers Collection housed in Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State University Libraries is one of the most complete collections of Wright material in the world.
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