OTHER RESOURCES
Some of this information comes from the biographical file for pilot Earhart, CE-004000-01 et seq., reviewed by me in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC.
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AMELIA EARHART
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Amelia Earhart touched her wheels on the ground at East St. Louis once, on Saturday, August 24, 1929. She landed as part of the group of female pilots who were competing in the 1929 National AIr Races (NAR). They were all on their way from Santa Monica, CA to Cleveland, OH. She was flying a Lockheed Vega she did not identify by number in the Register. But, from the history books, we know the registration number was NR31E. Please direct your browser to the airplane's page for photographs, links, and an account of its useful life.
Earhart flew NR31E to third place in the Women's Derby of the NAR. She won $875 for her effort. Besides the 1929 NAR, Earhart maintained a high profile in Golden Age aviation. She flew long-range transcontinental, international and trans-oceanic flights, setting records for being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. She also set an altitude record in a Pitcairn autogiro.
During the summer of 1937 she planned a round-the-world flight in a twin-engined Lockheed Electra. She, her navigator Fred Noonan and the airplane disappeared July 2, 1937 as they tackled the South Pacific legs of their journey. She and Noonan were assumed to be deceased, but conspiracy theorists continued to chase down leads to her and her airplane.
Besides her visit to Parks Airport, Earhart landed and signed the Register at the Davis-Monthan Airfield three times, all at later dates than her St. Louis landing. Her full (but incomplete) biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Earhart has a broad Web presence, has many books and articles written about her, and has been the topic of a feature film and TV shows and documentaries.
Earhart was born July 24, 1897. She would be 113 years old as of the upload date of this page. There is little chance she continues to hold court on an island in the Pacific. Please direct your browser to her link above to see additional photographs, news articles, links, motion pictures and artifacts shared by Web site visitors regarding Earhart's life. To view a right profile of her, invoke these coordinates in your Google Earth search line: 39.537621°N 95.145158°W.
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