Spirit of Saint Louis LindberghSpirt of Saint Louis Charles Lindbergh airplane model. By far the best known Ryan airplane was the one off Ryan NYP (New York Paris) used by Charles Lindbergh for the first and epic solo west to east nonstop flight across the North Atlantic in 1927. Lindbergh's historic flight of the Ryan NYP, better known by far as the "Spirit of St. Louis", initiated new worldwide interest in aviation. Interestingly, a large capacity fuel tank in the forward