The first successful airplane was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright at Wright Cycle Shop No. 4. It is located at 22 South Williams Street, Dayton, OH 45402.
This is where they built all of their experimental airplanes from the 1899 kite to the 1905 Wright Flyer III, and this is the building that was moved to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI.
The building was restored by Aviation Trail, Inc., a non-profit organization of Dayton historians and aviation enthusiasts. Today it's managed by the National Park Service.
On December 17, 1903, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, with no formal engineering training defied gravity in their curious flying machine over the dunes of North Carolina’s remote Outer Banks.
By making what many consider the first powered, sustained and controlled manned airplane flights, Orville and Wilbur Wright ushered in the era of flight and soared into history. Here are 10 things you may not know about the aviation pioneers shared by History.com.