Orville Wright is at the controls of the "Wright Flyer" as his brother Wilbur Wright looks on during the plane's first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in this Dec. 17, 1903 file photo. The Dayton Evening ...

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Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic first flight last 12 seconds. Dayton Daily News archives In 1917, the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company was awarded war contracts to produce an American version of ...

Other museum highlights include an entire gallery devoted to Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Ohio brothers who invented, built and flew the world’s first successful airplane. On display here is the ...