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Earhart and her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks gave her an airplane ride that sparked her interest in flying.
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First Femal to fly solo across the North American continent and back.
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Earhart was engaged to Samuel Chapman, a chemical engineer from Boston
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She represented Transcontinental Air Transport and invested her time and money to set up the first reginal flight between New York and Washington D.C.
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National Airways conducted flying operations of the Boston-Marine Airwasy as well as other airlines in the northeast.
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After proposing 6 times, Earheart married George P. Putnam.
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She set a world altitude record at 18,450 feet.
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As the first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic, Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French Government and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Herbert Hoover.
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Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
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Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae.
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National Airways become Northeast Airlines
