Aviation & Exploration
A legendary life
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart
1897 – Presumed 1937
Record-setting aviator and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Her story
A life that changed history
Amelia Earhart set numerous aviation records and wrote bestselling accounts of her flights. In 1932 she completed a nonstop solo transatlantic flight in a Lockheed Vega 5B, becoming the first woman to do so, and helped establish The Ninety-Nines organization for women pilots.
“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
Letter to George Palmer Putnam, 1937