Question: Where in Texas did aviator Charles Lindbergh crash into a hardware store?
Answer: Camp Wood in Real County. In January 1924, Lindbergh and his friend Leon Klink, a St. Louis auto dealer, embarked on a cross-country trip in Klink’s yellow World War I surplus Curtiss JN-4C biplane, known as a “Canuck.” A few weeks later, a navigation error forced them to land in a field near Camp Wood.
After refueling, Lindbergh determined the field was too short for the 90-horsepower, single-engine Canuck to take off with both occupants, so he arranged to meet his friend in town. While he landed successfully on a Camp Wood road, a wing clipped a telephone pole on takeoff, causing Lindbergh to lose control and crash into an unoccupied hardware stored.
