Who piloted the first American Airlines flight?
Amelia Earhart
Howard Hughes
Neil Armstrong
Charles Lindbergh
Correct Answer: Charles Lindbergh
Fact: On April 15, 1926, aviator Charles Lindbergh piloted the first American Airlines flight, transporting U.S. mail from St. Louis, Missouri, to Chicago, Illinois. Nearly a year later, Lindbergh would make history by setting out on a 33.5-hour nonstop journey from New York to Paris, becoming the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. Lindbergh emerged from the virtual obscurity of a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous worldwide fame as the result of his historic transatlantic flight in his single engine, single-seat, monoplane named the “Spirit of St. Louis.”