DAYTON, Ohio —

Howard Patterson stood outside the Wright Cycle Company — part of the national park complex dedicated to the aviation pioneers who honed their mechanical skills repairing bicycles in Dayton — on Friday, and found locked doors with a sign taped to the window.

“Due to the current lapse in federal government appropriations this site is closed to the public,” the sign said. Advertisement

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Orville and Wilbur Wrights’ bicycle shop, the Wright Cycle Company, in Dayton, Ohio, 1937. The site is now part of the national park complex dedicated to the Wright Brothers.

The 44-year-old DHL worker said he’d hoped to use a day off to visit a site he’d often taken his family to see. He also wanted to visit the National Museum of the US Air Force, but

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