page_title: Amelia Earhart
section_title: Aviation career and marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Amelia Earhart / Aviation career and marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Amelia Earhart — wearing a dress, standing beside a Merrill CIT-9 Safety Plane, circa 1928.
context_page_description: Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
  Born in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane, for which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
caption: Amelia Earhart, Los Angeles, 1928 
  X5665 – 1926 "CIT-9 Safety Plane"
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