Identifying the source of your supplied metals is the main purpose of Conflict Minerals Compliance. A Smelter is the first stop for raw materials once they have been mined or recycled by the provider.
The first airplane to take flight was built by the Wright brothers  in Ohio USA and was transported first to North Carolina and flown  for its first time there.
The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright were two Americans who are generally 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 17 December 1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC on December 17, 1903.