In June of 1928, a 30-year-old social worker named Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air on a plane called the “Friendship.” Though Earhart was a licensed pilot with some ...

A 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton Convertible, originally owned by Amelia Earhart and restored into an award-winning centerpiece.

Nearly 90 years after celebrated American aviator Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, a veteran pilot believes he may ...

Pisano, Dominick A. 1994. "Film review: "Amelia Earhart," written, produced and directed by Nancy Porter Productions for The American Experience, 1993." Journal of ...

Amelia Earhart, fondly known as "Lady Lindy," was an American aviator who mysteriously disappeared in July 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe from the equator. Earhart was the 16th woman to ...

“I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her,” President Donald Trump announced recently ...

The Kansas-born aviator was a heroine of the Midwest in her day. But her legend was forged in Midtown Manhattan. Amelia Earhart in 1932, the year she became the first woman to make a nonstop solo ...

RIC GILLESPIE REMEMBERS being asked over and over: When are you going after Amelia? It was the late 1980s, just a few years after he had established the International Group for Historic Aircraft ...

“Sex, violent death, and mystery. If your life has one of these things people might be interested. If it has two, now you’re tabloid fodder. If it has three, you’re Amelia Earhart.” So begins Laurie ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dorothy Cochrane is curator for General Aviation in the Aeronautics Department of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and is responsible for the collections of ...