Field Air Museum in Riverside, California. Numerous static display-only, nonflying reproductions are on display around the United States and across the world, making this perhaps the most reproduced single aircraft of the "pioneer" era in history, rivaling the number of copies – some of which are airworthy – of Louis Blériot's cross-Channel Bleriot XI from 1909. Artifacts In 1969, portions of the original fabric and wood from the Wright Flyer traveled to the Moon and its surface in Neil Armstrong's personal preference kit aboard the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, and then back to Earth in the Command module Columbia. This artifact is on display at the visitors center at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1986, separate portions of original wood and fabric, as well as a note by Orville Wright, were taken by North Carolina native astronaut Michael Smith aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, which was destroyed soon after liftoff. The portions of wood and fabric and Wright's note were recovered from the wreck of the Shuttle and are on display at the North Carolina Museum of History. A small piece of the Wright Flyers wing fabric is attached to a cable underneath the solar panel of the helicopter Ingenuity, which became the first vehicle to perform a controlled atmospheric flight on Mars on April 19, 2021. Before moving on for further exploration and testing, Ingenuitys first base on Mars was named Wright Brothers Field. Specifications See also References Notes Bibliography Hallion, Richard P. The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1978. . Hise, Phaedra. "In Search of the Real Wright Flyer." Air&Space/Smithsonian, January 2003, pp. 22–29. Howard, Fred. Orville and Wilbur: The Story of the Wright Brothers. London: Hale, 1988. . Jakab, Peter L. "The Original." Air&Space/Smithsonian, March 2003, pp. 34–39. Mikesh, Robert C. and Tom D. Crouch. "Restoration: The Wright Flyer." National Air and Space Museum Research Report, 1985, pp. 135–141. External links Nasa.gov Wrightflyer.org Wrightexperience.com "Under The Hood of A Wright Flyer" Air & Space Magazine 1942 Smithsonian Annual Report acknowledging primacy of the Wright Flyer History of the Wright Flyer Wright State University Library 1903 in North Carolina Aircraft first flown in 1903 Articles containing video clips Canard aircraft History of Dayton, Ohio Individual aircraft in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution Prone pilot aircraft Single-engined twin-prop pusher aircraft 1900s United States experimental aircraft