Aviation Trail dinner

A top Ohio aerospace leader and former high-ranking official at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will be the guest speaker at the Aviation Trail celebration of the 111th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first flight.

Michael L. Heil is the president and CEO of the Ohio Aerospace Institute in Cleveland. He is a former commandant at the Air Force Institute of Technology and a prior director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Propulsion Directorate at Wright-Patterson.

The Aviation Trail ceremony and dinner is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the Presidential Banquet Center, 4572 Presidential Way in Kettering. A social hour begins at 6 p.m.

Tickets cost $60 a person. Checks should be mailed to Aviation Trail Inc., P.O. Box 633, Wright Brothers Branch, Dayton, Ohio 45409 to arrive no later than Dec. 15. Organizers ask attendees to indicate their choice of an entrée: beef, chicken or vegetarian. STAFF REPORT

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