Aviation Trail, Inc.
A non-profit corporation in partnership with the National Park Service
to promote Aviation Heritage in the Dayton region
Experience the Birthplace of Aviation!
Wright Flyer Replica
Parachute Museum is located in the ATI Visitor Center.
Sky's the limit...
Race to Dayton's aviation places!
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Check with each site before travelling:
Visiting days and hours for the various sites may sometimes fluctuate especially in the time of COVID. Before traveling to a site on the Aviation Trail, please be sure to verify that site’s status by calling the number shown in the site’s listing on the site listings below, and by checking the site’s own website or other contact information. And please comply with the face mask policy of each individual site. (Federal face mask requirements apply at all National Park sites).
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Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, a five-unit park is located in and around Dayton, Ohio.
View our Events and Projects page for details on upcoming events.
Download and print a passport brochure & map using the button above, or pick one up at one of the participating sites
Tour a minimum of eight of the amazing aviation sites listed in the brochure.
Aviation Trail Inc. Parachute Museum
The Aviation Trail Parachute Museum was established to honor David Gold, whose parachute collection is considered one of the most comprehensive private parachute collections in the world and to tell the story of the local development of the freefall parachute at McCook Field.
David Gold passed away on February 4, 1985, at the age of 67. In 1986, his estate donated his collection to Aviation Trail, Inc. The books, papers, reports, photographs, and films were sent to nearby Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio. The rest of the collection was retained by Aviation Trail, Inc. at the Aviation Trail Visitor Center and is available for research. The materials at Wright State University are available for research in the Special Collections and Archives section of the University’s Paul Laurence Dunbar Library.
Access to those materials is available at this link - click here for WSU archives materials
CLICK HERE for much more on the Parachute Museum page, and see the story of the Parachute Museum interviews, and video links to the interviews.
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