Amelia Earhart, a Kansas native, began her ascent to fame in 1922 when she piloted her bright yellow Kinner Airster biplane—endearingly called “The Canary”—to a then-record height of ...

Born in Atchison, Kansas, to a locally prominent family ... has given rise to competing theories on what became of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Jamie Simon But she must have ...

Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane ...

We are running north and south,” Amelia Earhart radioed from ... grabbing some glory of their own. But only Earhart—the reserved tomboy from Kansas who disappeared three weeks shy of her ...