Amelia Earhart and her navigator flew a Lockheed Electra 10-E and may have been discovered in the lagoon of a pacific island.

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.

Discover the history of the Lockheed Vega, which made its first flight on July 4, 1927, and became a record-setting aircraft flown by legends like Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post.

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

Amelia Earhart had already established herself as an American icon when she vanished over the Pacific in 1937 — and promising new sonar images of what ... her single-engine Lockheed Vega 5B, ...

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. The ...

A joint effort between Purdue Research Foundation and the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) is preparing to launch the ...

Amelia Mary Earhart, born July 24, ... Alone, in a red Lockheed-Vega monoplane, the wife of Palmer Putnam yesterday soared away from Harbor Grace, N. F., announcing Paris as her destination.

The long-awaited Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison, ... pilot a virtual reality flight in a Lockheed Vega 5B across the Atlantic, retracing Earthart’s 1932 flight and finally, ...

Purdue University, which helped fund her historic 1937 flight, said it will send a team to a remote island in the South ...

Of her many accomplishments, in May 1932, Earhart navigated her Lockheed Vega from Newfoundland to Ireland in 14 hours, 56 minutes to become the first woman to make a solo transatlantic flight.

Sparks flew, a wing bent, and the landing gear snapped off as the silver Lockheed Electra 10-E plane smashed into the runway at Luke Field, outside Honolulu. The pilot’s only stroke of luck was ...