On Sept. 1, 1930, a red Breguet 19 Super Bidon biplane took off from Le Bourget, Paris’ then-main airport, and landed in aviation history 37 hours and 12 minutes later at New York’s Curtiss Field. Unlike Charles Lindbergh, who flew nonstop east from New York to Le Bourget in 1927, the pilots Dieudonné Costes and Maurice Bellonte powered through the prevailing headwinds over the Atlantic and completed the more difficult westbound leg between the two cities for the first time.
