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Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Dayton OH photo: Orville and Wilbur Wright  (Wright State University Archives, Wright Brothers Collection)
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Accessibility

The accessibility of the sites within Dayton Aviation Heritage varies by park unit.

Accessibility by Facility

The Wright Cycle Company complex
The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center and Aviation Trail Visitor Center and Museum as well as The Wright Cycle Company building are fully accessible.

Huffman Prairie Flying Field
The Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center, located across from the Wright Memorial on Wright Brothers Hill, is handicapped accessible. Accessibility to the Wright Memorial is limited. A ramp provides access on the first platform to the memorial, however, not to the actual memorial itself. The Huffman Prairie Flying Field has limited accessibility. The parking lots provided offer handicap spaces, however, the trails through the prairie are on uneven terrain. This may cause difficulty traveling through the flying field.

John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers
Aviation Center

The Wright Brothers Aviation Center at Carillon Historical Park is fully accessible.

Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial
The visitor center of the Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial is accessible but the house itself has limited accessibility. The upstairs of the house can only be reached by using a steep staircase.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright

Did You Know?
On January 26, 1938, with Orville's permission, some of the Wright brothers' original calculations in aerodynamics are released for the first time in a paper entitled, "Wright and Prandtl: Some Early Wind Tunnel Tests Interpreted in the Light of Prandtl's Induction Theory."

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