Spirit of St. Louis - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 43.873 W 117° 12.136
11S E 481047 N 3621508
An exact replica of the Sprit of St. Louis on display in the Alaska Terminal of San Diego International Airport. It is located at baggage claim carousel 3. A boarding pass is not required to visit.
Waymark Code: WM1283F
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/25/2020
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Taken from Wikipedia, "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 was flown by Charles Lindbergh 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.[2]
Lindbergh took off in the Spirit from Roosevelt Airfield, Garden City, New York, and landed 33 hours, 30 minutes later at Aéroport Le Bourget in Paris, France, a distance of approximately 3,600 miles (5,800 km).[3] One of the best-known aircraft in the world, the Spirit was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego, California, owned and operated at the time by Benjamin Franklin Mahoney, who had purchased it from its founder, T. Claude Ryan, in 1926. The Spirit is on permanent display in the main entryway's Milestones of Flight gallery at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C."
Where is original located?: Washington, DC
Where is this replica located?: San Diego, CA
Who created the original?: Ryan Airlines
Internet Link about Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_St._Louis
Year Original was Created (approx. ok): 1927
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