The company played a crucial role in the success and shaping of Dayton as a manufacturing center and in the livelihood of Dayton residents as a source of employment and tax revenue.

Much to the annoyance of Dayton residents, there is a mistaken impression that the airplane was invented in Kitty Hawk, N.C., because that is where Wilbur and Orville Wright first flew their plane, on Dec. 17, 1903.

Reece took the series on Catalina Island, and the model is thought to have been former Dayton resident Marie Peiza.

Richard Shoemaker, the director of the U.A.W.'s G.M. department, said the agreement provided job security for current workers, some new jobs for Dayton residents and improvements in unsafe working conditions.

The workers here have struck, demanding that brake orders not be given to outside companies and that G.M. hire more workers so that the next generation of Dayton residents can find good paying jobs here as well.

Completed shortly after the standard runways, it became a familiar sight to Dayton residents.

Dayton residents protested April 23, 2007 at a public hearing at Carillon Historic Park, facilitated by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office.

Partly because Dayton residents had been annoyed by the disruptions caused by the first race and partly because the city of Akron, home to four large tire companies, lobbied for the event, it was switched to Akron in 1935.