Learn who is Amelia Earhart, the iconic aviator. Explore her early life, pioneering historic flights, and the enduring mystery of her Amelia Earhart missing plane.

Researchers launch new search to find Amelia Earhart’s plane The latest attempt to solve the long-standing mystery will take place in November Graig Graziosi in Washington, D.C.

On June 17, 1928, at the age of 30, she became the first woman to pilot a plane — a bright red Lockheed Vega 5B, which she called "old Bessie, the fire steed"— across the Atlantic.

Researchers on Wednesday announced a new expedition to find Amelia Earhart’s plane, based on evidence that suggests the famed aviator may have crash-landed on a remote island in the South Pacific.

What, in fact, happened to Earhart was that her Lockheed Vega 5B ran out of gas before crashing, with the Kansas native unable hear instructions from a sea-based air traffic crew.

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

Wood offered his artistic interpretation in writing to Putnam: “Besides Amelia Earhart’s heroic spirit of flight, the design seeks to symbolize in line and contour the Lockheed Vega plane in ...

Earhart was photographed with both the vehicle and the plane from her final flight in 1936.

The aircraft in which Earhart would fly across the Pacific from Hawaii to California was a Lockheed Vega 5C, which was an improved model of the Vega 5B she had flown on her transatlantic solo ...

Famous American aviator Amelia Earhart was last seen flying over New Guinea. Her plane and bodily remains were never found.

A South Carolina adventurer's Amelia Earhart discovery turned out to be a plane-shaped rock formation, not her long-lost plane.

Tony and Lloyd Romeo, along with other Amelia Earhart researchers and enthusiasts, gathered in Atchison’s Fox Theatre to discuss Earhart’s disappearance and possible theories on finding the plane.