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Born July 24, 1897 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died July 2, 1937 [location unknown]
Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas. Her family later moved to Iowa, then to Chicago.
By 1920, the family was in Long Beach, California. This is when Amelia took her first 10-minute air flight ... and loved it.
After that she wanted to learn how to fly herself. Amelia worked odd jobs to pay for $1,000 lessons.
Six months later she purchased her own small plane. By May 1923 - she was only the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license.
Capt. Hilton H. Railey, called Amelia in April 1928 to asked her, "Would you like to fly the Atlantic?" She would be going with two other male pilots. She left Newfoundland on June 17, 1928 and landed in United Kingdom 20 hours and 40 minutes later. She became a celebrity. She was offered product endorsement deals (clothes, luggage) and wrote articles.
She became an aviation pioneer for women. The Boston Globe newspaper called Amelia one of the best female pilots. By 1927 she had 500 hours of sole flying with no incidents. She set many new flying records in races and distances.
She did many solo flights, and taught other women to fly. She wrote books about flying. And she is one of the founders of the “The Ninety-Nines”, an aviation organization for women.
Amelia Earhart was always liberal in her thinking. She believed in equal rights for women.
In 1931 she married George P. Putnam.
Using a Lockheed Electra she wanted to circle the earth. June 1, 1937, she left Miami, FL with Fred Noonan. Went to South America, Africa, South Asia, Island of New Guinea. On the crossing the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 heading for Howland Island. Radioed they were running out of gas and couldn't hear transmissions. There was no further communication.
A massive search for the plane and flyers was launched. Searches continued until July 19th with no traces of plane or people located. Amelia was declared dead Jan. 5, 1939.
There are many theories of what happened to Amelia Earhart, but after all this time nothing has been proven 100%.
Amelia has remained a female icon to women for decades.
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