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Celebrate National Aviation Day

  • Writer: Aviation Trail
    Aviation Trail
  • Aug 16
  • 1 min read
August 19th - Birthdays of Orville Wright and Katherine Wright

National Aviation Day is a United States national observation that celebrates the development of aviation. The holiday was established in 1939 by President Franklin  Roosevelt by presidential proclamation. August 19 is the birthday of both Orville Wright (1871) and his sister Katherine Wright (1874).


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This is also a good time to celebrate by reading more about the Wrights. Besides Wilbur and Orville, Katherine's support of their efforts also contributed greatly to aviation, along with many other accomplishments of her own. See the five links below for some interesting reading. The first two are online posts with interesting information about Katherine Wright, and the third about the brothers. The last two are reviews of books about the Wright brothers and flight.









































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