Whose flight first crossed the Atlantic solo?

On 20 May 1927 Charles Lindbergh, a 25-year-old US airmail pilot, took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island in his single-engine plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. He landed at Le Bourget Field near Paris about 33.5 hours later, after flying roughly 5,800 kilometres alone and without stopping. The flight won him the 25,000 dollar Orteig Prize and made him a global celebrity. The first nonstop transatlantic flight had been made by Alcock and Brown in 1919, but they flew as a pair. Five years after Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, in May 1932.