<P> 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 ) . One of the best known aircraft in the world , the Spirit was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego , California , which at the time was owned and operated by Benjamin Franklin Mahoney who had purchased it from its founder , T. Claude Ryan , in 1926 . The Spirit is now 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. </P>
<P> 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 ) . One of the best known aircraft in the world , the Spirit was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego , California , which at the time was owned and operated by Benjamin Franklin Mahoney who had purchased it from its founder , T. Claude Ryan , in 1926 . The Spirit is now 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. </P>
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the Smithsonian Institution 's National Air and Space Museum in Washington , D.C.
the Smithsonian Institution 's National Air and Space Museum in Washington , D.C.