Amelia Earhart by Chadwick

 Amelia Earhart

Amelia’s Full name was Amelia Mary Earhart. Amelia was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, US. Amelia was famous for being the first female aviator in history to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and also one the first female aviators to promote commercial air travel. Amelia developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane (accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she achieved celebrity status.

While Amelia was flying somewhere going to Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea, she disappeared on July 2, 1937 and declared dead on January 5, 1939.