Fri, 12/17/2021 - 8:30am to 5:00pm
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Wright Brothers National Memorial
1000 North Croatan Highway
Kill Devil Hills  North Carolina  27948
United States
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118th Annual Wright Brothers First Flight Celebration

December 17 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Gather at the exact site at the exact time as the historic flight to remember.

• 8:30 a.m. – Observance begins with a patriotic musical prelude

• 9:00 a.m. – Visitors Center opens as the program commemorates the Wrights’ achievement and pays tribute to this year's inductee into the First Flight Society’s Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine.

• 10:35 a.m. – Aviation flyover pays tribute to the Wright brothers at the documented exact moment of the Wrights’ first flight.

• 11:00 a.m. – Darrell Collins, NPS Historian, presides over the wreath-laying ceremony honoring the Wright brothers and witnesses of the first flight … at the exact spot where the famous first flight occurred.

Throughout the day, the park’s museum exhibits and activities provide interpretive talks in the Flight Room. Come be a part of history.