Atchison Sees Interest Spike In Amelia Earhart
Associated Press - Mon 10:22 AM 07/02/2012
Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897. She disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Interest in aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart is high in her early childhood home and birthplace of Atchison on the 75th anniversary of her disappearance.
An influx of visitors have been flocking to the city about 45 miles northwest of Kansas City.
One popular destination is the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, which is housed in the home where Earhart was born in 1897.
Helping to fuel the flow of visitors are renewed efforts to learn what happened to Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan. They disappeared July 2, 1937, while flying from New Guinea to Howland Island.
The flight was part of Earhart's attempt to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe.
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Associated Press information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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DougWestfall
Monday 9 July 2012 16:28 Report this comment
We all should remember the flight 45 years ago of Ann Pellegreno who was the first person to successfully complete Earhart's world flight in a Lockheed Electra in 1967. She was inducted into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990, the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame in 1991, EAA Vintage Association Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame in 2001. She received the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award in 2004 at Atchison, Kansas, and the Outstanding Involvement in Aviation Award from Michelle McEnany at the I-DOT/Aviation conference in Des Moines in 2010. Her books include the trilogy Iowa Takes to the Air, with volumes published in 1980, 1986, and 2003. Douglas Westfall, historic publisher, Specialbooks.com