Charles Lindbergh "Wing-Walks" at the Jimmy Carter Regional Airport in Americus, Georgia

Eric selects the coordinates for the second Roadside Attraction we will visit today.






Outside of Americus is the
Jimmy Carter Regional
Airport.




Charles Lindbergh is best known for flying solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean from Roosevelt Field near New York City to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France May 20 -21, 1927.  Georgians know that Lindbergh flew his solo flight at this airport (then known as Souther Field) in April, 1923.

After completing his solo flight, the then unknown aviator bought a Curtiss JN4-D biplane and "barnstormed" west from Georgia into Texas before heading north.  Lindbergh charged people for rides.  He worked with other pilots to promote the traveling air show.  "Slim" climbed out onto the wing of another pilot's plane and waved to people to drum up crowds for events.

This statue commemorates

Charles Lindbergh's time

spent wing-walking early

in his flying career.

Not far from the statue of

Lindbergh is the 

Brown C. Hodges Terminal.

Private planes sit waiting

for take off.

Roadside America is a great travel resource.  Today Eric and I visited the monument honoring a war criminal, Captain Henry Wirz, and visited the airport where Charles Lindbergh flew alone for the first time in his storied aviation career.