Dec. 21, 1928: Remains of only first successful Wright plane

Dec. 21, 1928: Remains of only first successful Wright plane in U.S. at local museum


Buried away in an unused basement room of the Museum of Natural History and Arts on South Street, covered with dust of nearly 20 years, lie the wings and rudders of the Wright brothers’ second successful airplane, the craft of 1905, which was the first to make a flight of more than 10 minutes. These parts are then, according to all available records, the remains of the first heavier-than-air flying machine which carried a man, in existence in the United States today.
Built two years later than the famous first plane, now in a British museum, the 1905 ship came to grief on the sands of Kill Devil hill at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Through the efforts of Charles K. Crane of Dalton, son of the late Zenas Crane, founder of the museum, the parts of the wrecked plane, strewn about near the coast guard station in North Carolina, were collected and shipped to this city. The museum basement has been their resting place, while volumes of correspondence with the inventor, Orville Wright, have been exchanged by Mr. Crane, Samuel G. Colt of this city, Cortlandt Field Bishop of Lenox, and Charles Lawrance, head of the Wright Aeronautical corporation, in vain efforts to have Mr. Wright restore the plane to its original condition.

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