Wright Brothers Day

12/20/2025

By Kip Tabb | Outer Banks Voice A little more than two years after students of First Flight High School’s Wright Flight Academy began to build a RV-12iS kit plane, the aircraft was unveiled on the …

12/20/2025

Did you know fragments of the Wright brothers’ first airplane, held in the North Carolina Museum of History’s collection, once orbited Earth 110 times?
Our latest Museum Musings blog traces how pieces of the 1903 Wright Flyer traveled from the sands of Kill Devil Hills to a NASA space shuttle, thanks to North Carolina, born astronaut Dr. William Thornton.
Read more in our latest Museum Musings blog. https://bit.ly/3Mpfr5X

12/20/2025

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On the Outer Banks, descendants of the Wright brothers and those who saw them fly imagine what it was like to soar into the wild blue yonder for the first time.

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December 17, 1903 - The historic First Flight of Orville & Wilbur Wright north of Kill Devil Hill - Report of the Wright Brothers in their own words to the Wilmington Messenger after the Wright Brothers had left the area to go back to Dayton Ohio -
published January 7, 1904 Wilmington Messenger

12/20/2025

Another First in Flight, 122 Years Later

122 years ago today, Orville and Wilbur changed the world forever as they succeeded in achieving the first heavier-than-air, powered, controlled flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their achievement ushered in a new era for humanity where we would be forever interconnected across the planet.

Today we celebrate a new first in-flight moment in the shadows of the Wright brothers’ achievements as the National Park Service and Dare County Schools unveiled the first flyable plane built at Wright Brothers National Memorial since the Wright brothers in 1903. For the past two years, juniors and seniors from neighboring First Flight High School constructed this two-seater plane while learning about aviation, physics, teamwork- with some historical inspiration from the Wright brothers themselves. Join us in congratulating the students on a job well-done and becoming a part of the Wright brother’s legacy.

Learn more about the students’ journey through the Wright Flight Academy video series: go.nps.gov/takeflight

12/20/2025

For over two years, the students at First Flight High School had the goal of building a plane where the Wright brothers first took off.

12/17/2025