 In 1927, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris renewed interest in aviation.Soon after, James D. Dole, president of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, offered a prize of $25,000 ($ in 2011) to the first person to fly from North America to Hawaii after August 12, 1927.As a result, George Hearst, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, bought the Vega for $12,500 and entered it in the Dole Air Race under the name Golden Eagle.