What year did the Wright brothers made the first successful man-powered airplane flight near Kitty Hawk North Carolina?

1903! The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.