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Birth
This timeline starts on 24 July 1897 when Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, USA to Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart and Amelia "Amy" Otis Earhart. She was called by the family pet name "Meeley". Her sister was born two years later named Grace Muriel Earhart (1899 – 1998), nicknamed "Pidge". Amelia had an unconventional upbringing - a real tomboy. -
Nursing Career
She visited her sister in Toronto where she receives training from the Red Cross and volunteers as a nurse during WW1 at the Spadina Military Convalescent Hospital in Toronto, Canada -
First Flight
Leaves Columbia University and returns to New York. Experiences her first flight with Frank Hawks and became determined to take flying lessons and learn to fly -
First Flying Lesson
Completes her flying lessons with Neta Snook a pioneer female aviator who used a "Canuck" for training. Amelia Eahart then purchases her first aircraft - the Kinner Airster which she nicknamed "The Canary." -
World Record
Amelia Earhart sets a world record for women's flying with an altitude record of 14,000 feet -
License
15 May 1923: Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license by the (FAI) -
Co-Piloting
Publicist Capt. Hilton H. Railey approaches Amelia Earhart to accompany pilot Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis Gordon on a flight across the Atlantic. She is recognized as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger and the team are given a ticker-tape parade in New York followed by a reception at the White House with President Calvin Coolidge. Amelia then purchases the Avro Avian Airplane She became engaged to Samuel Chapman but this was broken in November -
Speed Record
July: Amelia Earhart sets the women's world flying speed record of 181.18 mph (July)
October: Obtains her air transport license -
Flying Solo
21 May: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, taking 15 hours 18 minutes, flying a Lockheed Vega 5B. In August she then became the first woman to fly non-stop across USA. She flew coast to coast, Los Angeles to Newark, in 19 hours 5 minutes in a Lockheed Vega 5B and broke the previous speed record. She is awarded the Army Air Corps Distinguished Flying Cross and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society, presented by President Hoover and also wins the Ha -
Last Flight
March : Begins her round-the-world flight in Oakland, California setting a record for east-west
(Oakland to Hawaii) travel in 15 hours and 47 minutes but the plane is damaged and needs repairs June: Starts a second round-the-world attempt from Miami, Florida. Fred Noonan was her only crew member for the second flight. July 2, 1937: Leaves New Guinea and disappears near Howland Island. Their last known position report was near the Nukumanu Islands her last radio message was: "We must be on yo
