Lake Village, Arkansas: Lindbergh Engine Trouble Monument
In 1923, when Charles Lindbergh was still just an airmail pilot, his plane made an emergency landing on a golf course here. When the plane was repaired Lindbergh took it up for a night flight: his first. After he became famous in 1927, the town erected this monument.
- Address:
- 2584-3398 AR-144, Lake Village, AR
- Directions:
- About two miles north of town on AR-144/N. Lakeshore Drive, on the west side of the road. If you pass the tennis courts you've driven too far.
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This monument marks the site of Charles Lindbergh's first night flight.
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Lucky Lindy was so famous after his 1927 solo transatlantic flight that every town where he did something even remotely interesting erected a monument.