Top-Flight Fun in Dayton
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Dayton Convention & Visitors Bureau Dayton Convention & Visitors Bureau Top-Flight Fun BONUS! Have your passport stamped at 8 of 17 in Dayton aviation sites and get your Nowhere else in the world but Dayton can you see the very own Wilbear Wright Aviator Teddy Bear! collection of amazing artifacts, experience the authentic Download a Passport at sites, and learn the complete and compelling story of the daytoncvb.com Wrights and the invention of manned, powered fight. DAY ONE serene, beautiful, hilly Arboretum Collect 6 Passport Stamps! and fnal resting grounds of the Wright family. 118 Woodland Avenue, 937-228-3221 MORNING | Begin your Top-Flight Fun Wilbear Wright Take of for the Wright B Flyer, Aviator Teddy Bear journey to where you can take an actual Dayton’s amazing aviation places fight in Wright Brothers reproduced at the only required passport airplane. Get another stamp! stop—the Dayton Aviation 10550 Springboro Pike, Miamisburg, Heritage National Historical 937-885-2327 Park’s free Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center & Wright | Motor coach Cycle Shop. EVENING friendly dining options abound 16 S. Williams Street, 937-225-7705 at Austin Landing and the Dayton Mall area adjacent to the Wright Collect a stamp at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House. B Flyer. Dunbar was a childhood friend of the Wrights and the frst DAY TWO internationally recognized Collect 3 More Passport African American poet and writer. Stamps and Earn a Wilbear 219 N. Paul Laurence Dunbar Street, Aviator Teddy Bear! 937-224-7061 MORNING | The free National Carillon Historical Park and Museum of the U.S. Air Force is Wright Flyer III the Wright Brothers National the world’s largest and oldest Museum have more Wright military aviation museum with artifacts on display than any 19 acres of enclosed exhibits other place in the world, featuring over 340+ aerospace including the original 1905 vehicles. A must see and pass- Wright Flyer III—the only port stamp location! airplane designated a National 1100 Spaatz Street Gate 28B (enter Historic Landmark. Collect a on Springfeld St.), 937-255-3286 passport stamp! 1000 Carillon Boulevard, 937-910-0722 Hawthorn Hill LUNCH | The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Cafeteria LUNCH | Enjoy lunch at is convenient and even ofers Carillon Brewing Company, the only historic brewery on the freeze-dried astronaut ice cream! grounds of a museum in the nation. | Get your 1000 Carillon Boulevard, 937-910-0722 AFTERNOON passport stamped at the co-located National Aviation Hall AFTERNOON | From Carillon Historical Park catch a transfer to of Fame which recognizes aviation pioneers. Next, experience the Hawthorn Hill, the Wright family mansion and obtain another Dayton Aviation Heritage passport stamp. National Historical Park Hufman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive and obtain another stamp. National Museum of the U.S. Get a stamp at Woodland Center Air Force Carillon Brewing Company Cemetery and Arboretum, a 2380 Memorial Road, 937-425-0008 Dayton Convention & Visitors Bureau Dayton Convention & Visitors Bureau EVENING | Dine at the Dayton • Butler County Warbirds, Inc. Engineers Club, where inventors at Middletown Regional like the Wrights, Kettering Airport, 1707 Run Way, Middletown, (electric car starter and many 513-702-3062 patents), and Deeds brain- stormed and ate. Congrats! • Sinclair National UAS Training You’ve collected over 8 stamps and Certifcation Center and earned your Wilbear Wright Aviator Teddy Bear! Sinclair College 444 West Third Street, Dayton, To receive your free “Wilbear 937-512-4900 Wright Brothers Wright Aviator Teddy Bear”, please mail your completed passport to: “Wilbear Wright” c/o Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center, Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park 16 S. Williams St., Dayton, OH 45402 (Or your bear may be picked up in person from a National Park Service Ranger at the Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center.) DAY THREE If you have time...explore the Aviation Trail Wilbear Wright Passport’s nine other Woodland Cemetery amazing aviation locations! • Wright State University Wright Brothers Special Collections and Archives 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, 937-775-2092, (Wright State University Library) • Historic WACO Field and Airplane Museum 1965 S. County Rd. 25A, Troy, 937-335-9226 • Armstrong Air & Space Museum 500 Apollo Drive, Wapakoneta, 419-738-8811 • Champaign Aviation Museum 1652 N. Main Street, Urbana, 937-652-4710 • Grimes Flying Lab 1636 North Main St., Urbana, Engineers Club 937-652-4319 • Tri-State Warbird Museum CONTACT Crystal Walker, Interim Director of Sales & Services 4021 Borman Drive, Batavia, Dayton Convention & Visitors Bureau 513-735-4500 937-226-3162 | 800-221-8235 [email protected].