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Related Historical Markers
By Mark Hilton, March 21, 2020
View from marker towards Wright Brother's replica plane.
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery — Maxwell Air Force Base/Air University — (Located to West off Bell Street) —  |
| In 1910, Wilbur and Orville Wright opened a flying school on the Kohn plantation west of Montgomery where for three months they trained aviators and made history with the first night flight. Today, Maxwell AFB, home of the Air University, the Air . . . — — Map (db m146978) HM | |||
| 2 ► Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery — Maxwell Air Force Base and the Air University — |
| The Air Force presence in Montgomery, Alabama began in April 1918 with the establishment of the U.S. Army Air Service's Aircraft and Engine Repair Depot #3 at the same site as the earlier Wright Brothers' flying school. On November 8, 1922, the . . . — — Map (db m146981) HM | |||