TheNational Aviation Heritage Area is a federally designatedNational Heritage Area consolidating more than fifteen aviation-related sites in theDayton, Ohio area into a cooperative marketing and administrative framework. The National Heritage Area is centered on the activities of theWright Brothers and their workshop at theDayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, itself composed of several sites.[1]
Major features of the Heritage Area include theNational Museum of the United States Air Force,Grimes Field,Champaign Aviation Museum and theNeil Armstrong Air and Space Museum, as well as theWright Cycle Company,Huffman Prairie Flying Field,Hawthorn Hill andPaul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial units of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. Other cooperating organizations include the aviation archives ofWright State University,Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, the Greene County Historical Society and local visitor centers.[2]
The National Aviation Heritage Area was authorized in 2004[3] and is administered by the National Aviation Heritage Alliance.
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