May 21, 2006

In April 1923, Charles Lindbergh spent the night near Lake Village (Chicot County) after an emergency landing. The bright moonlight prompted him to take his first nighttime flight, a skill critical to the success of his record-breaking May 20-21, 1927, flight from New York to Paris. Today, a historic marker near Lake Village commemorates his successful night flight.

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