The massive celebrations that followed Charles Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight of 1927 come to life in an extensive new display of "Lucky Lindy" memorabilia at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va.

Composed of more than 400 artifacts, the presentation illustrates the popular culture phenomenon that turned the reserved young pilot from Minnesota into the first media superstar of the 20th century. The colorful assortment of commemorative toys, pins, games, bottles, jewelry, hats and pennants was collected by Lindbergh enthusiast Stanley King over several decades and donated to the museum in 2002.  Most of the items were mass-merchandised to the public as Lindbergh toured the United States and Latin America in the years immediately following the New York-to-Paris flight.

Adding context to the King collection in the Udvar-Hazy Center display are some three dozen rarely seen museum artifacts, including flight instruments from the 1927 flight and clothing used by Charles and wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh when they flew the world in the late 1920s and early 1930s charting flight paths for commercial airlines.

The airplane that took Lindbergh to Paris, the iconic Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, and his Lockheed 8 Sirius Tingmissartoq, which the Lindbergh’s flew to the Orient and across much of the Atlantic, continue to engage visitors to the museum’s flagship building on the National Mall in Washington.

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is located in Chantilly, off of Route 28. It is open daily at 10 a.m. Admission is free, but there is a $12 fee for parking.

The museum’s Mall building is open at 9 a.m. through Labor Day, Sept. 4, with the first floor, Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater and food court accessible. The second floor of the building opens at 10 a.m.

Both museum facilities close at 5:30 p.m. and are open daily. (Closed Dec. 25.)