17 08, 2019

Celebrate National Aviation Day with Us!

CELEBRATE NATIONAL AVIATION DAY AND ORVILLE WRIGHT’S BIRTHDAY

WITH THE FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY!

AUGUST 19TH

9AM TO 2PM

Dare County Airport (MQI)

FREE AND FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

FREE THINGS TO DO:

Meet members and learn about the First Flight Society
Aviation static displays: Navion, Caravans, Med Flight Helo, Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) C-172, and ECSU simulator
Learn about the ECSU STEM Progams
Visit the Airport Museum and learn about the WWII squadrons that had special training at NAAS Manteo (the origin of this airport).

Weather permitting, the airport commercial operators will be offering the following opportunities for a fee:

· Open cockpit biplane, helicopter and warbird tours over the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina!

· Tandem Skydiving!

410 Airport Road
Manteo NC 27954

4 08, 2019

FFS Giving Day is August 19th!

3 08, 2019

FFS Giving Day is August 19th!

First Flight Society Giving Day is August 19th, 2019!

For 24 hours, sponsors, supporters, members and friends will come together and make a powerful statement of support for the First Flight Society’s mission to raise public awareness of the origin and future of aviation. Gifts to the First Flight Society Annual Fund on Giving Day make a lasting impact on the FFS and its programs.– to ensure future generations are educated and able to celebrate the lasting legacy of the Wright Brothers!

Giving Day offers First Flight Society supporters the chance to come together and make a tremendous cumulative impact. This year Giving Day is on National Aviation Day.
You can help us make First Flight Society Giving Day a big success! In the spirit of the Wright Brothers, donate to the FFS Annual Fund during Giving Day, August 19th!

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27 07, 2019

More Events to Come in 2019!

We have had an exciting year so far, but we have more exciting events and announcements coming!

Events:

National Aviation Day/Orville Wright’s Birthday August 19th
First Flight Giving Day August 19th
New FFS Member Program Coming Soon!
Wright Brothers Play TBD
116th Anniversary of Flight December 17th

11 07, 2019

Lunar Landing’s 50th Anniversary!

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RE-CREATES PUBLIC VIEWING OF THE LUNAR LANDING FROM JULY 20, 1969!
Re-live the historical moment when man set foot on the moon from the exact location where the Wright Brothers achieved the first successful flight!

You can see pictures from the original 1969 event at www.nps.gov/wrbr.

7 06, 2019

Wright Brothers National Memorial celebrates 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing, July 18-20

Wright Brothers National Memorial, in partnership with Outer Banks Forever, First Flight Foundation, and First Flight Society, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a series of events from July 18-20.

The anniversary weekend launches the evening of July 18th with a special space-themed movie showing at Dowdy Park in Nags Head, sponsored by the First Flight Foundation. Special space-themed ranger-programs will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

On July 20th, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the public is invited to watch a special rebroadcast of the news coverage of the original lunar landing outside the visitor center. Some visitors may remember that 50 years ago, on the evening of July 20, 1969, Wright Brothers National Memorial hosted a live […]

13 05, 2019

Colonel Gail Halvorsen will be the 2019 Paul E Garber Shrine Honoree.

The 116^th Anniversary of Powered Flight Event on December 17, 2019 will induct Col. Gail Halvorsen, USAF (Ret), the “Candy Bomber”, as a representative of the crews that flew the mission, and the Berlin Airlift (June 27, 1948 to May 12, 1949) on this 70th Anniversary of the completion of the great humanitarian event into the Dr. Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine. The event will include having the Berlin Airlift Foundation C-54 and a C-47 on display to represent the “workhorses” of the airlift, and a flyover, all dependent on maintenance and weather. The event at the Wright Brothers National Memorial is free and open to the public. More details here as we solidify the program.

9 05, 2019

Why Donate to the First Flight Society?

Donate.

You see this almost every day from one organization or another. You get telephone calls. You get letters. You see it on television. You hear it on the radio.

Like most non profits we rely on donations and memberships from people just like you to keep our group alive. Your next question is probably, “Why should I donate to the First Flight Society?” What do they actually do?

Did you know that If it wasn’t for the First Flight Society there wouldn’t even be a Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina? Under the name Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, a group of local businessmen petitioned the US Congress to Fund and build a monument to the Wright Brothers’ achievement of 1903.

Though primarily known as the group that puts on the annual celebration at the Wright Brothers National Memorial every December 17^th, that is not all that we […]

8 05, 2019