National Aviation Day

The National Aviation Day is a United States national observation that celebrates the development of aviation.

The holiday was established in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who issued a presidential proclamation which designated the anniversary of Orville Wright’s birthday to be National Aviation Day (Mr. Wright, born in 1871, was still alive when the proclamation was first issued, and would live another nine years).

Remembering ‘First Flights’ on National Aviation Day

NASA Celebrates National Aviation Day

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