Huffman Prairie
About Huffman Prairie
Located on an active U.S. Air Force base (Wright Patterson AFB), the Huffman Prairie Interpretive Center provides visitors with a closer look at the aviation side of the Wright Brothers story. This visitor center is open Wednesday and Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., but the grounds remain open dawn to dusk all seven days of the week.
Park Passport stamps are available here.
Adapted from National Park Service.
Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field, is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots. Many early aircraft records were set by the Wrights at the Huffman Prairie.
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- Founded
- 1990
Photos of Huffman Prairie
01FairbornWright Brothers · Public domain
02HuffmanPraireHangerAndCatapultUnknown photographer · CC BY-SA 3.0
03HuffmanPraireVisitorsCenterUnknown photographer · CC BY-SA 3.0
04ShimadaK2008-Huffman Prairie path board-PICTK. Shimada · CC BY-SA 3.0
05ShimdaK2008-Huffman Prairie hangar-PICTK. Shimada · CC BY-SA 3.0
06USDeptInterior-Huffman Prairie layout-PICTK. Shimada · Public domain
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Nearby museums
Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 2.8 miles of Huffman Prairie; the closest, National Aviation Hall of Fame, is about 2.6 miles away.
