(1897-1937)

• In 1928,Amelia was asked to join Wilmer Stultz (pilot) and Lou Gordon (flight mechanic) on a trans-Atlantic flight. Twenty-one hours after take off they landed safely in Europe, making Amelia the first woman to ride in a plane across the Atlantic Ocean

• Earhart took her first flying lesson on January 3, 1921

• She had completed the Atlantic crossing, and in the process set a new record of thirteen hours and thirty minutes

• In 1935, Amelia became the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean, when she made the crossing from Hawaii to California

• Amelia was the first female, and one of only a few to date, to receive the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross

• Earhart worked as a nurse’s aide in a military hospital in Canada during WWI, attended college, and later became a social worker