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 ...