Amelia Earhart was a pilot.
She was born in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897.
Her first plane ride was in December 1920.
She took flying lessons to learn to fly.
In 1932 she flew a Lockheed Vega across the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1935 she flew alone from Hawaii to California.
The Ninety-Nines were women pilots. She was their first president.
In 1937 she tried to fly around the world.
Fred Noonan flew with her. In July 1937 her plane went missing.
Ships and planes searched for her.
Words to know
- pilot: flies a plane
- Atlantic: an ocean
