Ryan Spirit of St. Louis Scale:1/10The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N X 211) is the custom built, single engine, single seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 2021, 1927, on the first solo non stop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. Lindbergh took off in the Spirit from Roosevelt Airfield, Garden City, New York, and landed 33 hours, 30 minutes later at Aroport Le Bourget in
the plane skidded off the runway and ended up on her belly
Shortly after this run of missions
Dominic Salvatore Gentile ('Don')
she was flown to South Plains Field
He was removed from combat to sell war bonds back home
Johnson had been interested in aviation since his youth and applied to join the RAF
1944 she was assigned to the 5th Air Force
First Mate
They lived thru the next day and was shot in the head on March 26th
P-47D-28-RA
reclaiming the only survivor of the six P-38s and two B-17s abandoned during a 1942 trans-Atlantic ferry flight
Sold to Air Cargo Transport Corporation as a civlian aircraft with registration NC13726
