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15 04, 2025

    Celebrate Wilbur Wright’s Birthday With The First Flight Society On Wednesday, April 16th!

    KITTY HAWK, N.C. – March 27, 2025 – PRLog — The First Flight Society will celebrate the 4th annual

    Wilbur Wright Day event, a luncheon at the Hilton Garden Inn Outer Banks/Kitty Hawk on Wednesday,

    April 16th, 2025. The event runs from 11AM-2PM featuring the subject Celebrating Wilbur Wright’s

    Choice of Kitty Hawk and the Impact of That Choice on the Development of the Outer Banks.

    Speakers include Captain Paul Carr as the Spirit of Wilbur Wright, National Park Interpreter Adonis

    Osekre, and Dare County Vice Chairman Steve House. Carr and House are both board members of the

    First Flight Society.

    Sponsors and partners will be recognized as part of the event. An additional highlight will be a silent

    auction to raise money for […]

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    23 01, 2025

      Introducing the 2025 First Flight Society Board of Directors

      The First Flight Society announces its Board of Directors for 2025.

      Paul Wright Jameson was elected as President, succeeding Mike Fonseca. Paul is a great great nephew of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

      The rest of the Executive Committee was appointed as follows:

      Vice President-K. Lynn Tadlock
      Education Committee Chair-Judith Fearing
      Event Committee Chair-Paul Carr
      Finance Committee Chair-Erica Paynter
      Governance Committee Chair-Mark Flynn
      Marketing/Membership Chair-K. Lynn Tadlock

      National Advisory Committee Chair-William Douglas


      Immediate Past President-Mike Fonseca

      The rest of the 2025 board consists of:

      Sara Lou Copeland, M. Roy Daniels, III, Dr Charles Davidson, Orestes Gooden, Penny Leary-Smith and Mark Russell. Steve House, Paul O’Neal, and Debbie Ferrell Moore are new to the board this year. Steve is Vice Chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, Paul is Chairman of the Currituck County Board of Commissioners, […]

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