Display Status:

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Collection Item Summary:

Amelia Earhart squatting next to wheel underneath belly of an aircraft, probably her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra (r/n NR16020). Five mechanics are also underneath, working.

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Airplanes
  • Aeronautics
  • Women air pilots
  • Women in aeronautics

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

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photographer

Unknown

Subject

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Date

Circa 1936-1937

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-00157750

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