This new Trumbull County museum honors local aviators’ contributions to the field

of aviation and bears the name of one of America’s most well-regarded

aeronautical pioneers, Ernest C Hall. Among this veteran Warren, Ohio aviator

and flying school instructor’s flight teachers were the Wright

Brothers. The museum is filled with local, national and international aviation

memorabilia from the birth of the industry through present day. Visitors can

see items such as letters written between Hall and Orville Wright; signatures

from pilots such as Amelia Earhart and Chuck Yeager; and a piece of fabric

from the Fokker DR-1 Triplane that Manfred von Richthofen – better known as

the Red Baron – flew when he was shot down and killed in 1918. Hall owns the distinction of being continuously involved in all facets of

the aviation industry for 50 years -- longer than anyone else. One of the

planes he designed and constructed is housed in the Smithsonian’s National

Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Another Hall-designed aircraft is on

display at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton.