Amelia Earhart images revisit her life as new search planned
Aug. 11, 2026, 5:37 p.m. ET
Amelia Earhart stands June 14, 1928 in front of her bi-plane called “Friendship” in Newfoundland. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger, in 1928, and followed this by a solo flight in 1932. In 1935 she flew solo from Hawaii to Califofrnia. In 1937, with Fred Noonan, they set out to fly round the world, but their plane was lost over the Pacific.
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The Lockheed Electra ‘Flying Laboratory’, piloted by American aviator Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan flies over the Golden Gate bridge in Oakland, California, at the start of a planned round-the-world flight, 17th March 1937. The trip had to be abandoned after the plane crashed on take off in Hawaii. A subsequent attempt ended when the aviators went missing in the Pacific and the pair were eventually presumed dead.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly the Atlantic, demonstrates her route for the camera.
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US aviator Amelia Earhart, and Captain Raleigh on the roof of the Hyde Park Hotel, London, after she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Wales on June 17, 1928).
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American aviator Amelia Earhart with her pilot Captain A H White, after their trip to Northolt in a moth aircraft in 1928.
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Amelia Earhart waves from the cockpit of her plane circa 1929. Earhart disappeared without trace over the Pacific Ocean in her attempt to fly around the world in 1937.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart is surrounded by a crowd of well wishers and pressmen on arrival at Hanworth airfield after crossing the Atlantic in 1932. She is being congratulated on her flight in a Lockeed Vega by Andrew Mellon, US ambassador to Britain.
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Undated picture taken in the 30′ s of American female aviator Amelia Earhart at the controls of her plane. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger, in 1928, and followed this by a solo flight in 1932. In 1935 she flew solo from Hawa• to California. In 1937, with Fred Noonan, they set out to fly round the world, but their plane was lost over the Pacific.
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Undated picture taken in the 30′ s of American female aviator Amelia Earhart at the controls of her plane. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger, in 1928, and followed this by a solo flight in 1932. In 1935 she flew solo from Hawa• to California. In 1937, with Fred Noonan, they set out to fly round the world, but their plane was lost over the Pacific.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart smiles May 22, 1932 upon arriving in London, England having become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone.
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Photo of pilot Amelia Earhart standing by her plane circa 1935.
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Undated picture taken in the 30′ s of American female aviator Amelia Earhart in front of her plane. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger, in 1928, and followed this by a solo flight in 1932. In 1935 she flew solo from Hawaii to California. In 1937, with Fred Noonan, they set out to fly round the world, but their plane was lost over the Pacific.
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Portrait of Amelia Earhart, July 30, 1936.
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American aviatrix Amelia Earhartwith her navigator, Captain Fred Noonan, in the hangar at Parnamerim airfield, Natal, Brazil on June 11, 1937.
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American pilot Amelia Earhart greeting the crowds after her solo Atlantic flight from the US to Londonderry, Hanworth Aerodrome, England, May 22, 1932.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart at a refueling stop in Khartoum, Sudan, with the Lockheed Electra 10E in which she is attempting a circumnavigational flight of the world with navigator Fred Noonan on June 13, 1937. On a subsequent stage of the journey, Earhart and Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island and were later presumed dead.
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American aviator, Amelia Earhart, in London after becoming the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic on May 22, 1932. Earhart flew from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland to Culmore, Northern Ireland in 14 hours, 56 minutes. She is seen after a second flight from Culmore to London.
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US aviator Amelia Earhart speaks with her navigator, Fred Noonan (R, dark shirt) and technicians near her Lockheed L10 Electra aircraft in July 1937 in Singapore, before their last flight across the Pacific during which she disappeared. US Amelia Earhart was a aviation pioneer and writer, the first woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger, in 1928, and the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. She disappeared over the Pacific on July 2, 1937 with Fred Noonan, while they were undertaking a world tour.
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