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4 unusual facts about Kitty Hawk


Australian International Airshow

In 2003, the official theme was "Celebrating the Centenary of Powered Flight", commemorating the first powered flight by the Wright brothers on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Event cover

Cancels are either obtained in the city of the event (such as Kitty Hawk for the Wright Brothers first flight anniversary) or, for larger quantities of envelopes, from a special cancellation unit maintained by the Postal Service in Kansas City, Missouri.

Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium

His successful experiments and glider designs paved the way for the Wright brothers' powered flight at Kitty Hawk.

Maun Airport

The first planes to land here were before World War II – in the 1930s, just a mere 30 or so years after the Wright brothers made their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.


George Gunther

Gunther was also instrumental in the state legislature's designation of Igor Sikorsky as a Connecticut Aviation Pioneer, and sponsored a bill supporting Gustav Whitehead's claim to having achieved controlled powered heavier-than-air flight in Bridgeport, two years before the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk flight.

Theatre of Dare

They attract patrons from neighboring areas, including Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, Manteo, Roanoke Island, Hatteras, and Currituck County.


see also

Salem bin Laden

Salem bin Laden died on May 29, 1988 when he accidentally drifted into high voltage electrical power lines adjacent to the Kitty Hawk Field of Dreams Ultra-Lite Flying Field at the edge of Schertz, a northeastern San Antonio suburb.

VAW-112

The Golden Hawks deployed in July 1998 for a short detachment to Hawaii aboard the USS Kitty Hawk and later transferred the newest E-2C Plus Group II Navigation Upgrade aircraft to VAW-115 home bases at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan.

VFA-154

After a cross Pacific transit to Pearl Harbor the air wing cross decked to their new home - USS Kitty Hawk.