Orville Wright Signed Check to the IRS — 1938

Also available, "The Wright Brothers" medal awarded by Congress in 1909 — Bronze

While the Wright Brothers were able to innovate and avoid many of the failures that befell, sometimes tragically, other early aviation pioneers, they still had to pay taxes. This check, now framed, is made out to the “Collector of Internal Revenue, Cincinnati, Ohio” is signed by Orville and dated December 8, 1938. Of course planes would play a devastating role in the attack on Pearl Harbor just three years later. The first successful powered flight of the Wright Brothers was on December 17, 1903. It’s amazing to think of the pace innovation that brought an open wooden and canvas box with a small engine to the Zeros that would take off from aircraft carriers and fly 230 miles to Pearl Harbor, attack and return, or the pair of P-40 Warhawks that got airborne and went after some of the attacking planes.

Size: 3" x 8.5"

Framed: 8" x 13.5"

Shipping: $15. Please allow two weeks for shipping.