Trading on her physical resemblance to Lindbergh, whom the press had dubbed " Lucky Lindy ," some newspapers and magazines began referring to Earhart as " Lady Lindy.

Amelia Earhart, Los Angeles, 1928 X5665 – 1926 " CIT-9 Safety Plane " – California Institute of Technology | California Institute of Technology ( CalTech ) Aerospace model 9 Merrill-type biplane designed by Albert Adams Merrill ( Instructor in Aeronautics ); 45hp Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation | Kinner engine ; wingspan: 24 ' 0 ".

In 1927 he rejoined the Lockheed brothers and their new ( 1926 ) Lockheed Corporation, working as chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega, the civilian transport monoplane with a cantilever wing that produced unusually high performance for that period, and was widely used by such top pilots as Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart, and Hubert Wilkins.

There is speculation that Amelia Earhart might have crash-landed her plane at Nikumaroro in the Phoenix Islands group during her 1937 attempt to fly around the world.

* January 5 – Amelia Earhart is officially declared dead after her disappearance.

* June 17 – Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean ( she succeeds the next day ).

Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, flew this plane on their failed attempt to circumnavigate the world in 1937.

On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1937, Earhart and her crew, Paul Mantz, Harry Manning and Fred Noonan, flew the first leg of her attempt to circumnavigate the globe, from Oakland to Honolulu, Hawaii.

Later in the year, Earhart began her second, ill-fated attempt with the unpublicized first leg of her proposed transcontinental flight mapped from Oakland to Miami, Florida.

Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation.

Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of German American Samuel " Edwin " Stanton Earhart ( born March 28, 1867 ) and Amelia " Amy " Otis Earhart ( 1869 – 1962 ), was born in Atchison, Kansas, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis ( 1827 – 1912 ), a former federal judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank and a leading citizen in the town.

Earhart was named, according to family custom, after her two grandmothers ( Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton ).

From an early age Earhart, nicknamed " Meeley " ( sometimes " Millie ") was the ringleader while younger sister ( two years her junior ), Grace Muriel Earhart ( 1899 – 1998 ), nicknamed " Pidge ," acted the dutiful follower.

Their upbringing was unconventional since Amy Earhart did not believe in molding her children into " nice little girls.

As a child, Earhart spent long hours playing with Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and " belly-slamming " her sled downhill.

The next year, at the age of 10, Earhart saw her first aircraft at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

During this period, Earhart received a form of home-schooling together with her sister, from her mother and a governess.

The Otis house, and all of its contents, was auctioned ; Earhart was heartbroken and later described it as the end of her childhood.

Facing another calamitous move, Amy Earhart took her children to Chicago where they lived with friends.

Earhart made an unusual condition in the choice of her next schooling ; she canvassed nearby high schools in Chicago to find the best science program.

During Christmas vacation in 1917, Earhart visited her sister in Toronto.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

Consequently, with no immediate prospects for recouping her investment in flying, Earhart sold the " Canary " as well as a second Kinner and bought a yellow Kissel " Speedster " two-passenger automobile, which she named the " Yellow Peril.

As well as acting as a sales representative for Kinner airplanes in the Boston area, Earhart wrote local newspaper columns promoting flying and as her local celebrity grew, she laid out the plans for an organization devoted to female flyers.

Since most of the flight was on " instruments " and Earhart had no training for this type of flying, she did not pilot the aircraft.

The celebrity endorsements would help Earhart finance her flying.

While to a reader today it might seem that Earhart was engaged in flying " stunts ," she was, with other female flyers, crucial to making the American public " air minded " and convincing them that " aviation was no longer just for daredevils and supermen.

After flying with Earhart, Roosevelt obtained a student permit but did not pursue her plans to learn to fly.

That year, once more flying her faithful Vega which Earhart had tagged " old Bessie, the fire horse ," she soloed from Los Angeles to Mexico City on April 19.

While speaking in California in late 1934, Earhart had contacted Hollywood " stunt " pilot Paul Mantz in order to improve her flying focusing especially on long distance flying in her Vega and wanted to move closer to him.

This time flying west to east, the second attempt began with an unpublicized flight from Oakland to Miami, Florida, and after arriving there Earhart publicly announced her plans to circumnavigate the globe.

The last voice transmission received on Howland Island from Earhart indicated she and Noonan were flying along a line of position ( taken from a " sun line " running on 157 – 337 degrees ) which Noonan would have calculated and drawn on a chart as passing through Howland.

* In 1997, on the 60th anniversary of Earhart's world flight, San Antonio businesswoman Linda Finch retraced the final flight path flying the same make and model of aircraft as Earhart, a restored 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E.

Odlum and Cochran were close friends of Amelia Earhart and her husband George P. Putnam and the Odlums were financial backers of Earhart's flying activities.

In July 1937 Lae made world news when American aviator, Amelia Earhart, was last seen flying out of the airport on her way back to the United States.

The team of Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes wins in a Beechcraft C-17 Staggerwing, Laura Ingalls places second flying a Lockheed Orion 9D Special, and the team of Amelia Earhart and Helen Richey finishes fifth in a Lockheed 10E Electra.

* January 11 – 12 – Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight from Hawaii to North America, flying from Honolulu to Oakland, California.

* May 20 – 21 – Amelia Earhart, flying a Lockheed Vega, becomes the first woman to make a solo flight across the North Atlantic, flying from Harbour Grace in Newfoundland to Derry in Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes.

* March 17-May 28 – Linda Finch, pilot, aviation historian, and San Antonio, Texas businesswoman, flying a restored and specially equipped 62-year-old Lockheed Model 10 Electra, recreates the 1937 Amelia Earhart flight to circumnavigate the globe solo.

In addition, Putnam published two books Earhart wrote about her flying adventures.

Earhart disappeared in 1937 while attempting to set another flying record to fly around the world, and Putnam published her biography in 1939 under the title Soaring Wings.

Long retired from flying in 1994, Miss Woods was inducted into the National Women's Aviation Hall of Fame, where she is alongside Amelia Earhart and Patty Wagstaff, among others.

* Amelia Earhart, pioneer, aviator, disappeared while flying in 1937.