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Wright Brothers National Memorial
Monument marking the location of the first airplane flight
For the Wright Memorial in Ohio, see Huffman Prairie.
Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine.
From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio, based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau about the area's steady winds.
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They also valued the privacy provided by this location, which in the early twentieth century was remote from major population centers.
Administrative history
Authorized as Kill Devil Hill Monument on March 2, 1927, it was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933.
Congress renamed it and designated it a national memorial on December 4, 1953. As with all historic areas administered by the National Park Service, the national memorial was listed on the National Reg