After its historic flight in 1903, the Flyer was shipped to various museums before it came to rest in the Smithsonian Institution.

Wright "B" Flyer Inc. will build the reproduction airplane at the Wright Company factory site in Dayton, Ohio. Final assembly will take place inside the original Wright factory buildings.

The original Wright Flyer, piloted here by Orville Wright, became the first powered aircraft to fly after taking off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903.

Ohio has designated the 1905 Wright Flyer III as the state airplane, honoring Ohio's aviation heritage and recognizing the significance of the plane's original materials and the Wright Brothers ...

The original Wright Flyer, with its 40-foot wingspan, weighed about 605 pounds and cost about $1,000 to build. In all, the brothers, taking turns, flew the Wright Flyer four times that day in 1903.

Two men were killed on Saturday when they made a forced landing in a replica Wright Model B Flyer in a rural Ohio field.

In the exhibition “The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age,” the famed original Wright Flyer is front and center.

Spruce and ash have been found for the aircraft's ribs, though some Pacific coast wood will replace the West Virginia original the Wright brothers hauled to Kitty Hawk. The aluminum engine block ...

The Wright Flyer was the product of a sophisticated four-year program of research and development conducted by Wilbur and Orville Wright beginning in 1899. After building and testing three full-sized ...

A Piece of Original Fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer: To symbolically link the first airplane flight with the first human exploration of another celestial body, this piece of wood and fabric from the ...

Ohio has designated the 1905 Wright Flyer III as the state airplane, honoring Ohio's aviation heritage and recognizing the significance of the plane's original materials and the Wright Brothers ...