First
Flight Centennial Making Big Impressions
Visitation
up Nearly 50%; Celebration Ticket Sales
Capped
In
2002, nearly half a million people
visited Wright Brothers National
Memorial. This year, through August 31,
visitation to the park is already just
over half a million. Once again, the
patience and hard work of park rangers
and volunteers has been extraordinary in
dealing with new buildings, new
exhibits, new programs, and more
visitors than ever before eager to learn
about the story of the Wright brothers
and the first flight.
On
September 3, the National Park Service
announced that general admission ticket
sales for the First Flight Centennial
Celebration have reached about
two-thirds of capacity. There will be
35,000 general admission tickets offered
for sale for each day. About 10,000
tickets remain for December 17.
“We
encourage those who haven’t done so to
purchase their tickets as soon as
possible,” said Lawrence A. Belli,
Superintendent of the National Park
Service’s Outer Banks Group. Celebration
attendees represent nearly every state
in the union, with North Carolina,
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
California, Georgia, Ohio, New Jersey,
Texas, Florida and Michigan leading the
way in ticket sales.
For
general admission tickets, call
1-800-973-7327 or visit National Park
Service's ticketing
web site. There are still limited Centennial
Circle memberships available, which
provide general admission, special
seating and hospitality, and access to
limited hotel reservations for a member
and a guest during the Celebration.
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