Huffman Prairie
Huffman Prairie Flying Field | |
Orville Wright in flight over Huffman Prairie, approximately 1,760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds, Nov. 16, 1904 | |
| Nearest city | Fairborn, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 39°48′12″N 84°3′57″W / 39.80333°N 84.06583°W |
| Area | 84.4 acres (34.2 ha) |
| Built | 1904 |
| Website | https://www.nps.gov/daav/learn/historyculture/huffman-prairie-flying-field.htm |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000640 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 6, 1971 |
| Designated NHL | June 21, 1990 |
Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots. Many early aircraft records were set by the Wrights at the Huffman Prairie.