The National Aviation Day (August 19) is a United States national observation that celebrates the development of aviation.

The holiday was established by a presidential proclamation in 1939, which designated the anniversary of Orville Wright's birthday to be National Aviation Day.



Flight: 100 Years of Aviation by R. G. Grant


Flight: A History of Aviation in Photographs by T. A. Heppenheimer



Book of Flight: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by Judith E. Rinard


How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History
by Orville Wright


Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers-Fred Howard


The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom D. Crouch


West With the Night by Beryl Markham


Apollo by Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox


Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz


The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Eugene Cernan
Eugene Cernan


A Man on the Moon by Tom Hanks, Andrew Chaikin


Hubble: Imaging Space and Time by David Devorkin Robert Smith


Universe by Martin Rees


Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System by Tom Jones, Ellen Stofan