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Spirit of St. Louis 100th Anniversary Charter Flight Launches at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
Lindbergh Foundation unveils an extraordinary once-in-a-century six-day journey from St. Louis to Washington DC to New York to Paris aboard an exclusive all-business-class private jet expedition. OSHKOSH, Wis., July 21, 2026 — At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation officially launched the global countdown to one of the most significant
Lindbergh Foundation and Saint Louis Science Center Partner To Bring the Electric Propulsion Innovation Challenge (EPIC) Challenge to St. Louis To Engage Local Students to Design, Create, and Fly Fully Electric Aircraft
Key Points ST. LOUIS (July 29, 2024) — The Saint Louis Science Center, in partnership with the sustainable aviation nonprofit Lindbergh Foundation, have announced an inspiring multi-day Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Challenge that will engage the Science Center’s Youth Exploring Science (YES) students to design, create, and fly fully electric aircraft, with awards
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Erik Lindbergh (left), Chairman of The Lindbergh Foundation and Kennedy Ricci (middle), President at 4AIR with Allison Godlove (right), NBAA TV Host on Sustainability.
“It’s really about the future of the industry. We are seeing this from all angles: people within it, people’s families, media out there, government regulation. It’s coming from all sides. So we really need to build out programs and start to answer these ourselves because it’s really coming from every stakeholder out there that [sustainability] is important.” – Kennedy Ricci
Steve Csonka (left), Executive Director at Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative with Erik Lindbergh (middle), Chairman of The Lindbergh Foundation and Allison Godlove (right), NBAA TV Host on Sustainability.
“It’s going to take a lot of efforts to achieve that challenge, the size of that challenge that we’re talking about, and some of them will be non-traditional ways. We’ve got this great foundation of technical development that’s been going on. We’re starting down the journey of commercialization expansion, but there are still some sticky issues out there that may be very well suited to a prize to help get those bumps off the runway, as it were.” – Steve Csonka
Erik Lindbergh, The Lindbergh Foundation Chairman at TEDxBoston providing a talk on “Decarbonizing Aviation Using Incentive Prizes”
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Spirit of St. Louis 100th Anniversary Charter Flight Launches at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
Lindbergh Foundation unveils an extraordinary once-in-a-century six-day journey from St. Louis to Washington DC to New York to Paris aboard an exclusive all-business-class private jet expedition. OSHKOSH, Wis., July 21, 2026 — At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation officially launched the global countdown to one of the most significant
Lindbergh Foundation and Saint Louis Science Center Partner To Bring the Electric Propulsion Innovation Challenge (EPIC) Challenge to St. Louis To Engage Local Students to Design, Create, and Fly Fully Electric Aircraft
Key Points ST. LOUIS (July 29, 2024) — The Saint Louis Science Center, in partnership with the sustainable aviation nonprofit Lindbergh Foundation, have announced an inspiring multi-day Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Challenge that will engage the Science Center’s Youth Exploring Science (YES) students to design, create, and fly fully electric aircraft, with awards
Lee Enterprises Consulting Joins Lindbergh Foundation’s Forever Flight Alliance
The bioeconomy firm will help develop aviation sustainability prizes CHICAGO, IL, USA, May 10, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Lee Enterprises Consulting (LEC), with a staff of 150 bioeconomy experts, has joined the Forever Flight Alliance (FFA). The consulting firm will bolster FFA plans to accelerate innovation in sustainable aviation fuels through the creation of prize incentives. LEC
Erik Lindbergh Leads Consortium Challenge to Decarbonize Aviation Using Incentive Prizes
Lindbergh Foundation Chair Erik Lindbergh Leads Consortium Challenge to Decarbonize Aviation Using Incentive Prizes in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s Historic Transatlantic Flight. ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At the National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA BACE) in Orlando, Florida today, Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles Lindbergh and Chairman of The Lindbergh Foundation, announced the founding
Lindbergh Foundation Announces the Forever Flight Alliance to Decarbonize Aviation
Geneva/Seattle (May 23, 2022) – On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s historic 1927 New York to Paris flight, The Lindbergh Foundation, a global leader in balancing innovation and technology with the environment, and the XPRIZE Foundation, with the support of The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and National Business Aircraft

