Texas figured importantly in the career of aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-75). After buying his first World War I surplus Jenny in Georgia, he flew it to Texarkana in 1923 so he could say he had flown in Texas, the ambition of every barnstormer. With L. A. Klink in March 1924, he landed Klink's Canuck in Camp Wood while trying to fly to California, and the next day, during an attempted takeoff, he accidentally crashed into Warren Puett's Store. No one was hurt, and his offer to pay for the damage was rejected. Then called "Slim," Lindbergh made many friends there. Two weeks after visiting Camp Wood, he became a U.S. Air Service cadet at Brooks Field in San Antonio, and he completed advanced flight training at Kelly Field in 1925. On May 20-21, 1927, he made the first solo flight from New York to Paris, winning world acclaim. Later in 1927, he returned to Texas to survey the first commercial transcontinental air route through Amarillo, and in 1929 he inaugurated U.S.-Mexico airmail in Brownsville. A great aviation pioneer, he drew up and proved many major world air routes, flew in combat in World War II, collaborated in medical research, helped organize the Berlin airlift, and remained a hero to people of Camp Wood and Texas.