Air Service, United States Army United States Army Air Forces
Condition
National Museum of the United States Air Force
Site history
In use
1917–1951
Battles/wars
World War I World War II
Garrison information
Garrison
Training Section, Air Service
Wilbur Wright Field was a military installation and an airfield used as a World War I pilot, mechanic, and armorer training facility and, under different designations, conducted United States Army Air Corps and Air Forces flight testing. Located near Riverside, Ohio, the site is officially "Area B" of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base[citation needed] and includes the National Museum of the United States Air Force built on the airfield.
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WilburWrightField was a military installation and an airfield used as a World War I pilot, mechanic, and armorer training facility and, under different...
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and WilburWright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers...
WilburWright College, formerly known as Wright Junior College, is a public community college in Chicago. Part of the City Colleges of Chicago system...
Catherine Koerner Wright (April 30, 1831 – July 4, 1889) was the mother of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, and wife of Milton Wright. She gave birth...
Katharine Wright Haskell (August 19, 1874 – March 3, 1929) was an American teacher, suffragist, and the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville...
airplane—on December 17, 1903. Invented and flown by brothers Orville and WilburWright, it marked the beginning of the pioneer era of aviation. The aircraft...
pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the task of creating a dependable, fully...
Squadron at Kelly Field, Texas on 17 May 1917. On 29 July 1917, under command of Captain W.W. Wynne, the squadron moved to WilburWrightField, Dayton, Ohio...
of its first airplane, built and successfully flown by Orville and WilburWright, in 1909 the United States Army began the training of flight personnel...
Air Corps who was killed in the crash of his DH.4M, AS-32098, at WilburWrightField near Dayton, Ohio on June 19, 1918. He was piloting a flight test...
groups of both the USAAF, the flight test center of which was then at WilburWrightField, and the U.S. Navy, which had its facility at the Patuxent Naval...
Section, U.S. Signal Corps military facility, located adjacent to WilburWrightField in Riverside, Ohio. The Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot was...
3 km2) of land, including WilburWrightField and donated it to the Air Service, creating WrightField. From WrightField the division continued to work...
the following: 'WilburWright machine', 'Wright 1905 Flyer', and by later surviving Wright pilots and personnel 'twin-propellered Wright with head' ('the...
Navy; the Bureau of Aeronautics requested a solid-fuel JATO and WilburWrightField requested a liquid-fuel unit. The Air Corps had requested two thousand...
L-133 and L-1000 to the US Army Air Force's development division at WilburWrightField. By this point the original design proved too complex and had evolved...
Kelly Field, Texas on 18 December 1917. After a brief period, the squadron was moved to WilburWrightField, Fairfield, Ohio on 24 December. At Wright Field...
Curtiss P-36 fighter, he toured various facilities, reporting back to WilburWrightField. Lindbergh's brief four-month tour was also his first period of active...
Also surpassed the refueled record 01:12:04:34 April 16–17, 1923 WilburWrightField, Dayton, Ohio, US Oakley George Kelly and John Arthur Macready Fokker...
returned to Guadalcanal. Probably Post Headquarters, Kelly Field and WilburWrightField. Musser, James (2 May 2023). "Factsheet 42 Attack Squadron (ACC)"...
a 31.1 mile course: 60–61 1924 WilburWrightField, Ohio, 4 October, Harry Mills, 216.55 mph: 61 1925 Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, 10–12 October...