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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.
   Wh â¦ ile some argue that Santos Dummont (Brazilian) invented the  airplane while he was in France there is no evidence of any actual  physical works done to support the claim, there are no patents so  the credit goes to the Wright Brothers who filed the first patent.  The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright were two Americans who are  gener â¦ ally 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.