Aviation Trail, Inc.
A non-profit corporation
in partnership with the
National Park Service
to promote Aviation Heritage
in the Dayton region
Home of the largest
private parachute collection.*
Experience the Birthplace of Aviation!
Wright Flyer Replica
Sky's the limit...
Race to Dayton's aviation places!
Check with each site before travelling:
Visiting days and hours vary for the sites on the Aviation Trail. Each individual site sets its own visiting schedule, which may sometimes fluctuate. Changes may occur on a day-to-day basis due to circumstances. 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 Trail Sites page and by checking the site’s own website or other contact information. (Links and contact information are shown in the description of each site on the Trail Sites page).
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Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, a five-unit park is located in and around Dayton, Ohio.
View our Events 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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