Celebrating the First Trans-Atlantic Flight. No, It Wasn’t Lindbergh’s. https://nyti.ms/2Ydkc40

A Navy seaplane flew from Queens to the Azores in 1919, eight years before the Spirit of St. Louis. It took three weeks. It was not nonstop.
The New York Times New York Airlines and Airplanes
By JAMES BARRON from NYT New York
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