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  2. San Diego International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Lindbergh encouraged the building of the airport and agreed to lend his name to it. [16] The new airport, dedicated on August 16, 1928, was San Diego Municipal Airport – Lindbergh Field, with 140 Navy and 82 Army planes involved in a flyover. The airport was the first federally certified airfield to serve all aircraft types, including seaplanes.

  3. Coast Guard Air Station San Diego - Wikipedia

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    The contract called for one hangar with lean-to, a mess hall, a barracks building, two aprons, a runway to the field, and a small wooden seaplane ramp. During and prior to this time a Coast Guard Air Detachment was maintained on Lindbergh Field in one-half of a commercial hangar. This detachment was led by Elmer F. Stone after May 21, 1935.

  4. Lindbergh Beacon (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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    July 20 – October 23, 1927: Lindbergh tour of the US in his Spirit of St. Louis to promote his book We. August–September 1927: LA Times mentions civic leaders' interest in providing a beacon atop City Hall to honor Lindbergh and create an aid to aerial navigation. [2] [21] September 1927: Lindbergh visits Los Angeles as part of his ...

  5. Douglas Corrigan - Wikipedia

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    Corrigan's plane arriving in New York via ship. You may say that Corrigan's flight could not be compared to Lindbergh's in its sensational appeal as the first solo flight across the ocean. Yes, but in another way the obscure little Irishman's flight was the more audacious of the two.

  6. Charles Lindbergh - Wikipedia

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    Following a few months of barnstorming through the South, the two pilots parted company in San Antonio, Texas, where Lindbergh reported to Brooks Field on March 19, 1924 to begin a year of military flight training with the United States Army Air Service there (and later at nearby Kelly Field). [33] Lindbergh had his most serious flying accident ...

  7. Cradle of Aviation Museum - Wikipedia

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    It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains, was the site of many historic flights. So many seminal flights had occurred in the area that, by the mid-1920s, the cluster of airfields was already dubbed the "Cradle of Aviation", [ 1 ] the origin ...

  8. Spirit of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    The Spirit of St. Louis (formally the Ryan NYP, registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that Charles Lindbergh flew 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.

  9. Ford Flivver - Wikipedia

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    In an attempt to draw on his popularity, Charles Lindbergh was invited to fly the Flivver on a visit to Ford field, August 11, 1927, and was the only other pilot to fly the Flivver prototypes. [11] He later described the Flivver as "one of the worst aircraft he ever flew". [12] [N 2]