Fifty States Before Forty (15/50).  Located in Kill Devil Hills, the Wright Brothers National Memorial commemorates the first power controlled airplane flight (December 17, 1903).  While Wilbur and Orville Wright called Ohio home, the Outer Banks provided strong winds and isolation, an important factor to North Carolina's First in Flight motto.  Learn more:  https://www.nps.gov/wrbr/index.htm [2021]