4:22pm - The Spirit of St. Louis touches down at the Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris, France. Local time: 10:22pm. Total flight time: 30 hrs, 30 min. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours.

Among the clientele was the young Charles Lindbergh ... for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris. Louie’s Place served as Lindbergh’s informal headquarters as he pursued ...

Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia. Born two years after Lindbergh’s 1927 New York-to-Paris solo flight, King, as a child, became fascinated by Lindbergh. “Here was a young man who changed ...