Why is the 'Spirit of St. Louis' airplane important?

He returned to Long Island, and after a night without sleep found himself the only pilot prepared to depart. At Roosevelt Field, near Garden City, the Spirit of St. Louis would have 5,000 feet in which to take flight. read more

The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single engine, single-seat, high wing monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20 – 21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. read more

Spirit of St. Louis — Cleaned and repaired for display in the new National Air and Space Museum, September 1975. The Spirit of St. Louis is the aircraft that Charles A. Lindbergh used for the first non-stop solo trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris on May 20, 1927. read more