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First Flight Kitty Hawk-Flown Linen from the 1903 Wright Flyer I 6x8-inch Acrylic Display
First Flight Kitty Hawk-Flown Linen from the 1903 Wright Flyer I 6x8-inch Acrylic Display
$400.00
This is a chance to own authenticated linen that was on the 1903 Wright Flyer I when that aircraft made its first powered manned flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Cole's Aircraft now-famously acquired this material -technically Pride of the West-brand un-doped muslin - from the well-known aviation collector and historian Richard 'Bob' Boehme in 2022, who'd been given this sample by the famous Lt. Colonel George Burling Jarrett (after whom the library at Aberdeen Proving Grounds is now dedicated), who received it originally from Ivonette Wright - a niece of Wilber and Orville who acted as their historian for many years. This material has been matched to the only other known sample of this material, that also originated with Ivonette Wright, in the possession of the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
The 1903 Flyer was the first manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft - the first airplane - to fly. Designed and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright, it first flew from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17th, 1903. The flyer was in storage in Dayton in 1913 when a flood damaged the machine’s linen covering. Pending a tour of Europe, the Wrights recovered the flyer with all new material but saved the original linen.
In the 1930s, George B. Jarrett, owner and operator of the Steel Pier Amusement Company and The Jarrett Museum of World War History, obtained some of this original linen from Ivonette Wright, who was the Wright. In 1937, Jarrett shared some of this material with Robert (Bob) Boehme and mentioned that he'd obtained it from 'Ivonette Miller (Wright)' in a letter that we've in-part included in the artwork in these displays.
Each of these 6x8-inch displays are made of optical-quality clear acrylic and are free-standing. The roughly 1x1-inch piece of flown linen is not adhered but naturally floats within the cutout in the artwork. Hinged at the base, these displays may be opened, and the material may be removed for study and returned to the display.
The reverse of these two-sided displays includes provenance, and a COA signed and numbered by Ron Cole.
Proceeds from the sale of these displays will go towards the renovation of Cole Center Zanesville (CCZ), a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, and the preservation and operation of the world's only flying and FAA registered exact replica of the Wright 1905 Flyer III.
Limited to 300.
For those lucky collectors who acquired one of our early and out-of-stock wall-hanging Wright Flyer relic displays, your investment was a wise one as indicated by secondary market sales. We expect this edition of acrylic displays to similarly increase in value.
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