Possible Clues:

• Jimmy Stewart film (with ''The'')
• Monoplane which made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight
• First US pilot is somehow crossing over in this
• Paris
• From early plane, tourists flop — one is shattered
• 1927 lander at Paris
• I spoil tourist's fine trip, the first right across the pond
• Smithsonian attraction (with "The")
• American flier is out 0, first slip's achievement
• Lindbergh's plane