Volunteer organization Aviation Trail Inc. to honor member

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DAYTON — Aviation Trail Inc., a volunteer organization that promotes aviation heritage, plans to honor one of its own members, Stephen P. Brown, for years of work on aviation preservation projects.

Brown helped to develop and complete the Aviation Trail Parachute Museum, finished in 2010 in Dayton, the organization said Thursday. He received and stored a collection of parachutes and worked with Wright State University archivists to catalog it and prepare it for display.

Brown, an architect in his father’s firm Brown & Head Architects, was a leader in preservation of aviation landmarks in the onetime Dayton neighborhood of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the Hoover Block building where the Wright brothers started their careers as printers, Aviation Trail officials said. The building in Dayton’s Wright-Dunbar section now houses Aviation Trail’s visitor center and museum.

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