• A black-and-white photo shows a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra—with a shiny metal chassis—sitting in a hangar.
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    For decades, people have searched for Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, seen here undergoing maintenance in Hawaii during her attempted round-the-world flight in 1937.

  • A black-and-white photo shows a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra—with a shiny metal chassis—sitting in a hangar.

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March 01, 1937

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