The National Park Service has released a proposed management plan for its Dayton Aviation Heritage park and scheduled public meetings on it.
The new plan will replace the original one drawn up in 1997 and reflects changes since then, including increased federal security concerns in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attcks.
One of the Dayton park's sites is the Huffman Prairie Flying Field, which is situated off the end of the active airfield on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The draft general management plan lays out three alternatives, but the park service favors the most ambitious one.
Here are some key features of the favored alternative:
• Wright Dunbar Inc. would renovate the 20,000-square-foot Pekin Theater for the park's use. The theater building, now a shell, is next to the park's Wright Cycle Complex at West Third and South Williams streets.
• A new crossing on Ohio 444 and a different public entrance onto Wright-Patterson would ease movement between the Huffman Prairie Flying Field and its interpretive center, which is on the hilltop Wright Memorial Park at Kauffman Avenue.
• New facilities on the flying field, including an information kiosk and a hangar for the replica Wright B Flyer.
• A maintenance and storage facility close to The Wright Cycle Company complex.
Dayton Daily News
The new plan will replace the original one drawn up in 1997 and reflects changes since then, including increased federal security concerns in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attcks.
One of the Dayton park's sites is the Huffman Prairie Flying Field, which is situated off the end of the active airfield on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The draft general management plan lays out three alternatives, but the park service favors the most ambitious one.
Here are some key features of the favored alternative:
• Wright Dunbar Inc. would renovate the 20,000-square-foot Pekin Theater for the park's use. The theater building, now a shell, is next to the park's Wright Cycle Complex at West Third and South Williams streets.
• A new crossing on Ohio 444 and a different public entrance onto Wright-Patterson would ease movement between the Huffman Prairie Flying Field and its interpretive center, which is on the hilltop Wright Memorial Park at Kauffman Avenue.
• New facilities on the flying field, including an information kiosk and a hangar for the replica Wright B Flyer.
• A maintenance and storage facility close to The Wright Cycle Company complex.
Dayton Daily News
