Bath Township in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Greene County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Later Test Flights

Photographed by Pete Skillman, June 27, 2025

1. Later Test Flights Marker

Inscription. Wilbur Wright laid his hands on the controls of a flying machine for the last time in May 1910. In the years after Wilbur's death in 1912, Orville logged many flights at this flying field with student pilots as passengers, He continued to work on the problem of bettering aircraft controls, and test-flew experimental models then being built in Dayton by The Wright Company.

Orville's Automatic Stabilizer
Orville Wright made seventeen flights from this field to test and demonstrate his prize-winning device to the Aero-Club of America in December 1913.

Orville's last flight
The man who had first shown the world how to make a machine fly in December 1903 took his last hop as pilot in command in May 1918 from nearby Moraine, Ohio.

Erected by Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Air & Space.

Location. 39° 48.392′ N, 84° 3.758′ W. Marker is in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in Greene County. It is in Bath Township. It can be reached from Marl Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near

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this postal address: Marl Rd, Dayton OH 45433, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Ohio’s Dayton Metro

and in the Miami Valley.

It is also in the American Midwest

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Those Daring Young Men (here, next to this marker); A School for Flyers (a few steps from this marker); Flying Field to Air Force Base (within shouting distance of this marker); Trials in an Old Swamp (within shouting distance of this marker); The First Airport (within shouting distance of this marker); Huffman Prairie Flying Field (within shouting distance of this marker); Corner Boundary No. 6 (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Huffman Prairie Flying Field (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line).

Photographed by Pete Skillman, June 27, 2025

2. Later Test Flights Marker

Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Credits. This page was last revised on November 24, 2025. It was originally submitted on June 29, 2025, by Pete Skillman of Townsend, Delaware. This page has been viewed 122 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 29, 2025, by Pete Skillman of Townsend, Delaware.