Dubbed the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane was unusual and its pilot, Charles Lindbergh ... the across the country and the world, Pan American Airlines produced a travelogue played in Palm Springs ...

On May 20, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh left Long Island's Roosevelt Field in a single-engine plane built by Ryan Airlines. The plane, named the Spirit of St. Louis, would not touch ground again ...

Today, it is a crucial hub for American Airlines and its operations ... but a ceremony was not held until January 1929. On January 9, Charles LIndbergh flew an S-38, inaugurating service to ...

news broke that Frenchmen Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli had taken off from Paris bound for New York. It appeared as if all of Lindbergh's and Ryan Airlines' efforts had been in vain.