National Historic Landmark-Huffman Prairie Flying Field

National Historic Landmark- Huffman Prairie Flying Field

The Huffman Prairie Flying Field is the site used by the Wright Brothers from 1904 to 1905 to develop and test the world's first practical airplane, the Wright Flyer III.

It was on this ...

Huffman Prairie

1904 - 1905

The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. -Henry David Thoreau

After their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the ...

Huffman Prairie Flying Field

Huffman Prairie Flying Field, a unit of the Dayton Heritage National Historic Park, is the site where Wilbur and Orville Wright flew and perfected the world's first practical airplane, the 1905 Wright Flyer III, after their first flights in Kitty ...