OSHKOSH, WIS. – The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and its members have been invited to support the construction of a “new” Wright brothers aircraft on the site of the brothers’ original Wright Company factory in Dayton, Ohio. The aircraft project will be designed and built to modern airworthiness standards, but resemble the famed Wright Model B, which was the brothers’ first factory-produced airplane in 1910.
William J. “Jay” Jabour, president of the Wright “B” Flyer Inc. organization, made the announcement at EAA’s annual Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet in Oshkosh, December 12, 2014. The airplane project meshes with the missions of both Wright “B” Flyer and EAA organizations.
To help promote the project, the Wright “B” Flyer replica built in 1982 – known as the “Brown Bird” – will be displayed and flown at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wis. in July 2015.