Through our outreach, events, and talks, we teach lessons on innovation and risk-taking by emphasizing the lessons of: the $25,000 Ortieg Prize, Donald Hall’s 60-day aircraft build, Lindbergh’s goals and how building a fearless team succeeded in planning the flights of the Spirit of St. Louis.

The collection held more than 900 never-before-seen photographs, personal correspondence, letters from Charles Lindbergh, original newspapers, design tools, models, negatives, and the original Hall blueprints of the Spirit of St. Louis.

Through those treasures archived by Donald Hall Sr., we discover the mysterious man behind Lindbergh’s historic flight to Paris and the unique engineering masterpiece that propelled Hall and Lindbergh into a new age of aviation and commercial flight.”