Wright "B" Flyer Inc.
10550 Springboro Pike Miamisburg, OH 45342 MAP*
PHONE: 937.885.2327
WEBSITE: www.wright-b-flyer.org
*NOTE: As of July 2, 2010, the new Austin Road Interchange on I-75 is open less than one mile from Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport.
Wright "B" Flyer Inc. is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit corporation. Wright "B" Flyer inc. promotes the Dayton Region's aviation heritage by flying and displaying lookalikes of the Wright brothers' first production airplane, the Wright Model "B" Flyer, which was built in Dayton by the Wright Company and elsewhere under license.
Wright "B" Flyer has been flying its one-of-a-kind lookalike of a 1911 Wright Model B Flyer since 1983. In cooperation with the National Park Service and the U.S. Air Force, it also displays a non-flying Wright "B" Flyer replica on the Huffman Prairie Flying Field during summer months.
Wright "B" Flyer's aircraft have been flown or displayed around the United States, in Berlin, and at the Farnborough International Air Show in England. In 2010 Wright "B" Flyer volunteers deployed two airplanes – the flyable "Brown Bird" and the non-flying "Yellow Bird" – to San Antonio, Texas for the Military Flight Centennial commemorating Army Lt. Benjamin Foulois' first flights at Fort Sam Houston on March 2, 1910.
On Oct. 2, 1910, WBF pilots re-enacted the world's first air cargo flight by flying the Brown Bird from historic Huffman Prairie to Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus.
Starting in 2008, volunteers designed and built a new, flyable Wright Model B lookalike scaled to fit into a standard cargo container for deployment to aviation events around the world. Its builders dubbed it the "Silver Bird" for its silver-painted steel frame. A formal flight test program was developed, and flight testing began in June 2011. The airplane accumulated 25 hours of flight time until it was lost in a crash on July 30, 2011.
Wright "B" Flyer Inc. houses its flyers in a hangar-museum on Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport.
Various membership levels are available; some include a free orientation flight on a Wright “B” Flyer lookalike.
The Wright "B" Flyer hangar/museum is open to the public, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Other times are available by appointment. Memorabilia and souvenirs are available in the gift shop.
(Disclosure: The publisher of AviationDayton.com is a Wright “B” Flyer trustee.)
PHOTO GALLERIES:
Military Flight Centennial | Cargo flight re-enactment | Silver Bird
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