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Charles Lindbergh Airport Plaque

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Details:

Inside the Le Bourget airport area, near the current terminal, embedded in the ground of an aircraft parking lot, south of the vehicular traffic lane.

Plaque

A rectangular stone plaque remembering Charles Lindbergh’s landing here from New York on May 21, 1927. This is not the original plate that had a date error (the 22nd). The plaque was inaugurated on June 30, 1927.

Source of photos: Pierre Pécastaingts, nounet88 / www.aerosteles.net

Monument Text:

CHARLES LINDBERGH

APRÈS AVOIR TRAVERSÉ

L'ATLANTIQUE

ATTERRIT ICI LE 21 MAI 1927

 

English translation:

 

CHARLES LINDBERGH

AFTER CROSSING

THE ATLANTIC

LANDED HERE ON MAY 21, 1927

Commemorates:

People:

Charles Augustus Lindbergh

Units:

US Army Air Corps

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