RARE! SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS BEING REASSEMBLED AT THE SMITHSONIAN MAY 1928 PHOTO

ORIGINAL! RARE! SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS BEING REASSEMBLED AT THE SMITHSONIAN MAY 1928 PHOTO

RARE! SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS BEING REASSEMBLED AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 1928 PHOTO

[ One year and two days after making their first flight at Dutch Flats in San Diego, California, on April 28,1927, Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis flew together for the final time while making a hop from St. Louis to Bolling Field in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 1928. There he presented the plane to the Smithsonian Institute The "Spirit of St. Louis" first went on display in the Arts and Industries Building on May 13, 1928. On May 13, 1928, the Spirit of St. Louis was displayed in the Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Institution It was installed in the North Hall of the building, suspended above the exhibit cases.]

The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single engine, single-seat, high wing monoplane flown by Charles Lin the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from New York, to France. 

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (b.1902-d.1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25, he world fame by making the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris on May 20–21, 1927. 

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