One would naturally think that Kitty Hawk – the place from where the Wright Brothers took off an aircraft for the first time – houses the oldest airport in the world. However, according to Deborah Douglas, a historian and curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum, the First Flight Airport wouldn’t technically count as the oldest airport in the world, as it doesn’t “get airplanes in and out of the sky safely, and it has to transfer people and goods from one mode of transportation to another“.