Amelia Earhart

Where they went

5 related events

1. 1
   1921Earhart Learns to Flykey figure

   After her first ride in an aeroplane at Long Beach in 1920, Earhart learned to fly the next year and bought a yellow biplane she called the Canary.

2. 2
   1928The Friendship Flight across the Atlanticparticipant

   Earhart flew from Newfoundland to Wales in the seaplane Friendship, becoming the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air — though the men did the flying.

3. 3
   1932Earhart’s Solo Atlantic Flightkey figure

   Earhart flew her red Lockheed Vega alone from Newfoundland to Northern Ireland in 15 hours — the first woman, and the second person after Lindbergh, to fly the Atlantic solo.

4. 4
   1935Solo Flight from Hawaii to Californiakey figure

   Earhart flew alone some 3,800 km across the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland — the first solo flight from Hawaii to the American mainland.

5. 5
   1937Earhart’s Round-the-World Flight and Disappearancekey figure

   Earhart and her navigator Noonan set out to fly around the world near the equator and covered nearly 30,000 of the 40,000 km — but on 2 July 1937, searching for Howland Island, they vanished over the Pacific.

People who appear alongside

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  Fred Noonan1893 – 1937

  American navigator who helped pioneer Pan American’s Pacific routes and vanished with Earhart on her 1937 round-the-world flight

Themes this person appears in

• Amelia Earhart1897 – 1937

  From her first ride in an aeroplane to the first solo Atlantic flight by a woman and her disappearance over the Pacific on a flight around the world — the life of an aviator who widened the paths of the sky