Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1 mi. SW of Fairborn, Fairborn, Ohio. County/parish: Greene.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 06, 1971. NRIS 71000640.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
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. Many early aircraft records were set by the Wrights at the Huffman Prairie.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988758