National Aviation Day

Today is National Aviation Day.

I didn’t realize that until a bit ago when a sharp aviation-supplier executive brought it to my attention. Here in the Air Capital, we should take note.

National Aviation Day was established by a presidential proclamation in 1939 to celebrate the development of human flight. Aug. 19, Orville Wright’s birthday, was designated as the anniversary.

Now, if we could only get the day off.

2 Comments

  1. Gotchawork
    Posted August 19, 2008 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

    Seems like a good “tie-in” to our Wichita Air Festival!

  2. Studemax
    Posted August 20, 2008 at 11:08 am | Permalink

    We should celebrate National Aviation Day every day here in Wichita. If it wasn’t for the airplane business, Wichita would be just another nice small town on the prairie.