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Limited edition presentation featuring a large 1.5˝ x 2˝ swatch of original beige fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, as attested by three members of the Wright family. The swatch is affixed to a 11.75˝ x 9.75˝ certificate, numbered "Series 3 #55," with text reading: "Presented to James J. Sandegren. When Orville Wright prepared the 1903 Wright Flyer for public exhibition in 1928, he replaced the original fabric because it had been damaged by submersion in flood waters in 1913. He covered the flying surfaces with new fabric of identical material. After Orville's death in 1948, his executors found some of the original wing coverings carefully preserved and labeled in his laboratory at 15 North Broadway in Dayton. Ohio. This piece of fabric is from the section that covered the lower left wing of the first Wright aeroplane on December 17, 1903. On that day, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the world's first free, controlled and sustained lights in a power-driven heavier-than-air flying machine." Signed in pencil by Marion D. Wright, Stephen Wright, and Amanda Wright Lane. In fine condition.
