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The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, six miles (9.7 km) northeast of Dayton, Ohio. [3] The NMUSAF is the oldest and largest military aviation museum in the world, with more than 360 ...
National Museum of the US Air Force. 20 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016. ^ "Lavochkin La-17M Target Drone". National Museum of the US Air Force. 3 June 2015. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2021. ^ "Lockheed C-60A Lodestar". National Museum of the US Air Force. 10 April 2015.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) (IATA: FFO, ICAO: KFFO, FAA LID: FFO) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene and Montgomery counties. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wright Field and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot.
Hopalong Cassidy Museum, Cambridge, destroyed by fire in 2016 [282] Inland Seas Maritime Museum, Vermilion, closed in 2012 in as the Great Lakes Historical Society prepares to open the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, Ohio in 2013 [283] Kern-Harrington Museum, Plain Township, formerly operated by the New Albany-Plain Township ...
Sep. 16—The Dayton area has a deep history in connection to flight and the Air Force, including the development of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Here's a look at some key dates: — Early ...
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Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park.The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots.
The U.S. Department of the Interior listed three units of the park (Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Wright Hall and the 1905 Wright Flyer, and the Wright Cycle Company and Wright and Wright Printing building) on the 2008 U.S. World Heritage Tentative List as part of the Dayton Aviation Sites listing. [5]