The EAA Chapter 48 hosts this event on the first Sunday in May at the Moraine Airpark. It is the nation’s longest running same day continuous fly-in now in its 66th year. As a member of the Wright Seaplane Base Inc. club, which keeps alive the history of Orville Wrights 100 hydroaeroplane or seaplane test flights between 1912 and 1914 on the Miami River in Moraine & West Carrollton, I was volunteering at the WSBI tent. The event featured over 50 vintage, experimental or modern planes, great food and helicopter rides. My sister and I took our first ever helicopter ride on a Robinson R-44 (built in 2008) and enjoyed a thrilling ride with outstanding views of the Miami River, Dayton area, and suburbs. The grandkids enjoyed sitting in the plane’s cockpits.
