2 days ago

Wright Brothers Aeroboat Replica

City of Moraine Commemoration of the Wright Seaplane Base:

City of Moraine Press Release:

The City of Moraine completed the final pieces of a mini-park area across from 3315 Main Street in Moraine that contains a 1/4 replica of the Wright Model G Aeroboat soaring atop a flagpole. Through funding by the Wright Seaplane Base Inc. Organization and the City of Moraine, historical signage, park benches and a concrete pad was installed by the Moraine Street Division and the Moraine Building Maintenance Department. An additional appreciation plaque is mounted on a large rock donated by Stony Hollow Landfill. The signage tells the story of the Model G and of Orville Wright’s over 100 aeroboat flights between 1912 and 1914 along the Miami River in Moraine and West Carrollton.

Notes:

• This new mini-park does NOT replace the seaplane site or the marker down along the river. There is still a Wright Seaplane Base State of Ohio Historical Marker at the Miami & Erie Canal Park in West Carrolton along the Miami River with the original seaplane base site just across the river from the historical marker. It is just off I-75, exit 47.

• Parking for the new Model G replica mini-park is not available on Main Street but there are two parking options. Parking Option #1, people can park along Elter Drive since the mini-park is basically at the corner of Elter Drive and Main Street. Parking Option #2, people can park at the First Freedom Baptist Church parking lot at 3315 Main Street and walk across Main Street to the mini-park.

• FYI - If you leave the mini-park and walk 50 yards along the Main Street sidewalk (on the north side of Main Street) up onto the Main Street Bridge (which flows over the Miami River), we have a City of Moraine Historical Marker recognizing the Wright Seaplane Base along the northwest sidewalk/entrance to the bridge (see the photo in the lower right corner below).