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Amelia Rose Earhart (born January 18, 1983) [2] is an American private pilot and former reporter for NBC affiliate [3] KUSA-TV in Denver, Colorado. In 2013, Earhart started the Fly With Amelia Foundation , which grants flight scholarships to girls aged 16–18.
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, as the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" (née Otis; 1869–1962). [9] Amelia was born in the home of her maternal grandfather Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), who was a former judge in Kansas, the president of Atchison Savings Bank, and ...
Mary Anita "Neta" Snook Southern (February 14, 1896 – March 23, 1991) was a pioneer aviator who achieved a long list of firsts. She was the first woman aviator in Iowa, first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, first woman aviator to run her own aviation business and first woman to run a commercial airfield. [3]
The Earhart's lived at 1443 8th Street, Des Moines, from 1908-1909. The house, built in 1889, still stands as a residential home
Amelia Earhart poses with her Lockheed Vega, the aircraft that helped many pilots in the late 1920s and 1930s set flying records. The Vega could fly fast and had a long range, which is why Earhart ...
The object — which faintly resembles the shape of a plane — lies roughly 100 miles from Howland Island, the uninhabited strip of land just north of the equator where pilot Amelia Earhart and ...
The Ninety-Nines Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund (AEMSF) [31] program assists in funding flight training, technical training or academics for both recreational and career track women pilots by awarding scholarships to qualified members. The AEMSF "First Wings" award is a progressive milestone scholarship of up to $6,000 to assist a ...
On Sunday, the Charleston company announced via social media they captured a sonar image of what "appears to be Earhart's Lockheed 10-E" aircraft, which Earhart disappeared with 86 years ago in 1937.