WRIGHT ORVILLE: (1871-1948) American Aviator who, with his brother Wilbur, invented and built the ...

WRIGHT ORVILLE: (1871-1948) American Aviator who, with his brother Wilbur, invented and built the world's first successful airplane and made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17th December 1903. D.S., Orville Wright, being a signed cheque, Dayton, Ohio, 15th June 1943. The partially printed cheque, drawn on The Winters National Bank & Trust Co., is made payable to The Dayton Power and Light Company for the sum of $22.56. Signed in bold, dark fountain pen ink by Wright with a fine example of his signature, totally unaffected by the perforated bank cancellation. VG