PENNSYLVANIA, June 14 - PRINTER'S NO. 891

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE RESOLUTION

No.

136

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY YAW, BROWNE, LANGERHOLC, VOGEL, J. WARD, FONTANA,

LAUGHLIN, STREET, ARGALL, MARTIN, BARTOLOTTA, COMITTA,

SCAVELLO, PHILLIPS-HILL, MASTRIANO, ROBINSON, COSTA, STEFANO,

HUTCHINSON AND SCHWANK, JUNE 14, 2021

REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, JUNE 14, 2021

A RESOLUTION

Recognizing August 19, 2021, as "Aviation Day" in Pennsylvania.

WHEREAS, In 1903, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright left

their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, and traveled to the sands of

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, In Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers made the first

controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air

aircraft, and in the process established a tradition of

excellence in innovation that endures to this day; and

WHEREAS, Declared in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,

"National Aviation Day" celebrates the history and development

of aviation; and

WHEREAS, This annual event provides an ideal time to pay

tribute to the many pioneering individuals who have dared to

reach for the heavens; and

WHEREAS, The date of August 19 was selected specifically to

correspond with the birthday of Orville Wright, and this legacy

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