![]() delivery about three months." Lindbergh wired back that due to competition, delivery in less than three months was essential. Mahoney was away from the factory, but Ryan answered, "Can build plane similar M-1 but larger wings. Air Mail pilot was familiar with the good record of the M-1 with Pacific Air Transport, wired, "Can you construct Whirlwind engine plane capable flying nonstop between New York and Paris. After first approaching several major aircraft manufacturers without success, in early February 1927 Lindbergh, who as a U.S. Although what was actually paid to Ryan Airlines for the project is not clear, Mahoney agreed to build the plane for $6,000 and said that there would be no profit he offered an engine, instruments, etc. Hall and Ryan Airlines staff worked closely with Lindbergh to design and build the Spirit in just 60 days. The Spirit was designed and built in San Diego to compete for the $25,000 Orteig Prize for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris. It is known, however, that Hawley Bowlus was the factory manager who oversaw construction of the Ryan NYP, and that Mahoney was the sole owner at the time of Donald A. "Frank" Mahoney and Claude Ryan had co-founded the company as an airline in 1925 and Ryan remained with the company after Mahoney bought out his interest in 1926, although there is some dispute as to how involved Ryan may have been in its management after selling his share. Louis", which he prepared for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and is included as an appendix to Lindbergh's 1953 Pulitzer Prize winning book The Spirit of St. Hall documented his design in "Engineering Data on the Spirit of St. ![]() As a nonstandard design, the government assigned it the registration number N-X-211 (for "experimental"). To save design time, the NYP was loosely based on the company's 1926 Ryan M-2 mailplane, the main difference being the NYP's 4,000-mile (6,400 km) range. Louis Raquette Club in his then hometown of St. Louis" in honor of Lindbergh's supporters from the St. Hall of Ryan Airlines and named the "Spirit of St. ![]() Officially known as the "Ryan NYP" (for New York to Paris), the single-engine monoplane was designed by Donald A. 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. ![]() 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. 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). 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. ![]() 1 (not including later replicas and reproductions) ![]()
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