Aviation Trail

The Dayton Aviation Trail is a self-guided tour of selected, aviation-related sites open to the public.  The Trail was established in 1981 by Aviation Trail, Inc., an all-volunteer, not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to preserve and promote the Dayton's area's unique aviation heritage, starting with the invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright.  Tour a minimum of eight of the amazing aviation sites listed below using our brochure and receive a FREE "Wilbear Wright" aviation teddy bear!

Receive a Wilbear Wright Aviator Teddy Bear!

You could earn your very own Wilbear Wright Teddy Bear by visiting sites on the Dayton Aviation Trail!  

Tour a minimum of 8 of the 17 amazing aviation sites listed in this brochure. Receive a stamp at the one required site, Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center, plus a minimum of 7 of the remaining sites to qualify for the FREE "Wilbear Wright" aviator teddy bear. 

*All sites are listed below Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center is the first and required site, all the rest are listed alphabetically. 


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Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center Aviation Trail Visitor Center

16 South Williams Street
Dayton, OH  45402
(937) 225-7705
Website

The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center is located in the Hoover Block building part of this complex.  The Aviation Trail Visitor Center is in the Aviation Trail building.

DAHNHP

Armstrong Air & Space Museum

500 Apollo Dr.
Wapakoneta, Ohio  45895
(419) 738-8811
Website

On July 20, 1972, three years to the day after NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong, a native of Wapakoneta, walked on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, the Armstrong Air & Space Museum opened with Armstrong present. 

Armstrong Air & Space

Aviation Trail Parachute Museum

16 South Williams Street
Dayton, OH  45402
(937) 443-0793
Website

The Aviation Trail Parachute Museum tells the story of the development of the free-fall parachute through interactive exhibits, original artifacts, panels with copies of historic photographs and text and a timeline.

Parachute

Butler County Warbirds, Inc.

Middletown Regional Airport - 1707 Run Way
Middletown, Ohio 45042
513-702-3062
Website

Butler County Warbirds, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, formed for the purpose of acquiring and maintaining historic aircraft and establishing a series of mobile and permanent historical displays for use in educating and entertaining.

Butler County Warbirds

Carillon Historical Park

1000 Carillon Historical Park
Dayton, OH  45409
(937) 293-2841
Website

Among the attractions at this unique, 65-acre museum is the original 1905 Wright Flyer III, the world's first practical airplane.  The Flyer III, housed in Wright Hall, was restored under the personal direction of Orville Wright.

WrightFlyerIII

Champaign Aviation Museum

1636 N. Main St.
Urbana, Ohio 43078
(937) 652-4710 • Open Tuesday through Saturday 10 to 4
Website

Staff at this museum, located at Grimes Field in Urbana, Ohio, restore and preserve World War II-era aircraft to flying condition.  Work is underway currently on a B-17G Flying Fortress Champaign lady.

Champaign Aviation

Grimes Flying Lab

1652 N. Main St.
Urbana, Ohio 43078
(877) 873-5764 and
(937) 652-4319 (weekends)
Website

Located at Grimes Field in Urbana, the "lab" is a Beech 18 that served the U.S. Air Forces as a C-45 and was modified to a C-45H as a test bed for aircraft nighttime lighting systems. 

Grimes Flying Lab

Historical WACO Field & Airplane Museum

1865 S. County Rd. 25A
Troy, Ohio 45373
(937) 335-9226
Website

The WACO Aircraft Company was the largest manufacturer of civil aircraft in the country in the late 1920's and early 30's and this museum is dedicated to the plant and the employees that made it great.

Waco

Huffman Prairie Flying Field

Kauffman Ave. near the Route 444 intersection
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433
(937) 425-0008
Website

The Interpretive Center’s exhibits focus on the Wright brothers’ experimental flights at Huffman Prairie Flying Field in 1904 and 1905, and on The Wright Company’s flying school at Huffman Prairie from 1910 to 1916. 

Huffman Prairie

National Aviation Hall of Fame

P.O. Box 31096
Dayton, Ohio 45437
(937) 256-0944
Website

Learning and Research Center Springfield Street at Gate 28B Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433 The Hall of Fame is co-mingled with the National Museum of the United States Air Force (Site 8).

National Aviation Hall of Fame

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

1100 Spaatz Street
Dayton, OH 45431
(937) 255-3286
Website

The Museum is the world’s largest and oldest military aviation museum. Its more than 400 aerospace vehicles and thousands of personal artifacts, photographs and documents tell the story of military aviation from the days of the Wright brothers to the latest in stealth technology.

NMUSAF

Tri-State Warbird Museum

4021 Borman Drive
Batavia OH 45103
(513) 735-4500
Website

The Tri-State Warbird Museum was formed with a commitment to preserve the aircraft of World War II, educate visitors on America’s role in WWII, and to honor the veterans who fought and whose who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Tri-State Warbird

Wright B Flyer

Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport
10550 Springboro Pike (Rt. 741)
Miamisburg, Ohio 45342
(937) 885-2327
Website

The Wright “B” Flyer is a flyable look-alike of the world’s first mass-produced airplane, manufactured in The Wright Company factory in Dayton from1910 to 1911.

Wright B Flyer

Wright Brothers Memorial

Kauffman Ave. near the Route 444 intersection
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433
(937) 425-0008

The Memorial is located at the top of Wright Brothers Hill, overlooking the Huffman Prairie Flying Field where Wilbur and Orville conducted tests of their early flying machines in 1904 and 1905.

Wright Brothers Memorial

Wright Cycle Company

16 South Williams Street
Dayton, OH  45402
(937) 225-7705
Website

This building is one of only two original Wright brothers buildings still standing at their original locations in the West Side neighborhood where Wilbur and Orville lived, worked and invented the airplane. 

Wright Cycle

Wright State University Archives

3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
Dayton, Ohio 45435
(937) 775-2092
Website

Wright State University, named for Wilbur and Orville Wright, is home to the world's largest Wright Brothers' manuscript collection. 

WSU Archive

Woodland Cemetery

118 Woodland Avenue
Dayton, OH  45409
(937) 228-3221
Website

Wilbur and Orville Wright, their parents Milton and Susan, and their sister Katharine are buried in the Wright family plot in Woodland Cemetery.  Their friend poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and his mother Matilda are buried nearby.

Woodland Cemetery

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